Climate Change and Simulation/Gaming

David Crookall

Simulation & Gaming, 2013, vol. 44, issue 2-3, 195-228

Abstract: This editorial outlines a number of connections between climate change and simulation/gaming/debriefing. First, the development of this symposium is mentioned, including appreciation for contributors, especially Klaus Eisenack, James E. Hansen, Dennis Meadows, and Diana Reckien. Second, a wide range of climate change dimensions is outlined, with emphasis on the increasingly important role that simulation/gaming and debriefing should play in educating people to combat climate change. Climate issues include anthropogenic warming, due largely to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in massive and irreversible upheaval of the biosphere and the socioeconomic system. Given the massive direct and indirect negative impact of climate change on health and mortality, due largely to the lethargy of politicians and big business, such people, in a saner world, could be facing accusation of crimes against humanity. The topic of climate change needs to become the backbone of education round the world, with simulation/gaming and debriefing being one of the main methods for learning to survive in ‘pockets of resilience’. Topics for simulation/games and debriefing could include resilience, urgency, climate change science, indicators, and effects (feedback loops, rising sea levels, storm severity, food scarcity and security, water, war, denial, nuclear power, irresponsibility of politicians, etc.). Third, the absurdities of the push for growth in a finite world and of the burning of more coal are highlighted. Simulation/gaming and debriefing provide opportunities for learning to survive with a dangerously changing climate.

Keywords: anthropogenic climate change; Arctic ice; climate change; climate change impact; climate crime; climate deaths; climate education; climate inertia; climate learning; climate science; climate urgency; coal; CO2; debriefing; denial; Dennis Meadows; dynamic modeling; folly of growth; fossil fuel; gaming; glacier retreat; global temperature; global warming; governments; greed; greenhouse gasses; health threat; ice melt; James E. Hansen; modeling; natural resources; nuclear power; peak oil; plundering; policy; politics; projections; resilience; role-play; scenarios; sea level; simulation; Stephen Schneider; survival; sustainability; temperature anomalies; tragedy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/1046878113497781

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