The Climate Game: an educational simulation from the Financial Times

How can we use games and simulations to teach about the climate crisis?

An interesting example comes from the British Financial Times, which just launched a small web game. Let me outline the game, then offer a few thoughts.

In “The Climate Game” you play “the global minister for future generations” for the next thirty years. Unlike the minister in Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel, you have a lot of power over the nations of the world. Your goal is to reduce global greenhouse has emissions…