While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming. An Associated Press reporter played Daybreak several times with attendees from three countries. They made decisions to invest in green energies like wind and solar.
While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming. Borami Seo, Solutions for Our Climate, left, and Yi Hyun Kim, Solutions for Our Climate, play Daybreak, a game where players are supposed to work together to find a way to curb climate change , at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The yellow-red crisis cards are the ones that set players back the most. And every round comes with a new card, such as, “Storms: Every player adds 1 Community in Crisis” per 0.1 degrees Celsius temperature rise, or “Sea Level Rise: Every player loses 1 Infrastructure Resilience.
“How did that happen? It happened so quickly,” said Borami Seo, head of food and agriculture at Solutions for Our Climate in South Korea. She purposely chose Europe, arguably the world leader in climate policy and financial aid, so she would be in a position to help the rest of the world.“I thought this game was supposed to give us hope. I’m not gaining any hope,” Seo said in a voice somewhere between curiosity and frustration.
The game starts at 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. The real world is now 1.3 degrees Celsius higher, according to the United Nations. “I wouldn’t want most people to win the game the first time they play. I don’t think that’s a productive message,” Leacock said. “I want most people to lose, but to blame themselves and to learn from their experience and then really want to play again and be like, ‘I see what we did wrong. I’ve got an idea of what we can do better. Let’s try again and see if we can see if we can pull it off.’”
“You feel the anxiety rising as you’re getting farther away from your goal and the crisis points are increasing,” said Howard. “So I think we’re going to need to anticipate increasing anxiety. And what’s that going to do to human behavior on the local and global stage?”
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