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SimCity Societies More Green Than Gore?

At the New York Times "dot earth" blog, Andrew C. Revkin muses on the forthcoming SimCity Societies and its possible impact on attitudes about global warming. Revkin speculates that the game might be more influential than the Nobel-inducing book/film/lecture smörgåsbord An Inconvenient Truth.

I have some reservations about BP's sponsorship of clean energy in the game (or more properly their un-sponsorship of dirty energy), but a sophisticated understanding of pollution ecology certainly should be easier to culture in a dynamic interactive model than in an expository text.

Will Game's Impact Surpass 'Inconvenient Truth'?

4:40 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By bogost
1,954 views, 26 comments

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EA & BP Add Global Warming Threat To SimCity

Here's a fun new addition to the upcoming SimCity Societies game. EA and BP have teamed up to include climate education in the game...effectively adding the looming threat of global warming to the title. Hooray! While the game doesn't force you to power your city in any specific way, using cheaper, carbon dioxide producing sources of energy will raise the town's carbon ratings, causing disasters like droughts, heat waves, and the like. Alternatively, choosing from a variety of BP Alternative Energy low-carbon power options like hydrogen, natural gas, wind farms and solar power, players keep their cities safe from harm and feel all warm and fuzzy about themselves while learning about some of the causes and consequences of global warming, which may or may not exist depending on your viewpoint. BP was one of the first major energy companies to publicly acknowledge the need to reduce carbon emissions and begin taking precautionary measures, as well as being the world's number one source for food cooked on rollers. More »

9:40 AM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Mike Fahey
11,163 views, 76 comments

Latest by EnigmaNemesis: @sxp151: You do realize the CO2 levels were double than they are now back in the ice age right? You do realize the number one contributor of green house gas is the Ocean right? What is number 2? The Rain Forest. Oh but more »