Canada: Fight ravages of climate change in a virtual cityscape

A new interactive video game, Future Delta, is aiming to help people to visualize climate change and to see that their personal behaviour and public policy have a real effect on their future. The scenarios in the game are based on scientific data, reports Vancouver Sun.

“The first levers of control affect adaptation, becoming more self-sufficient, perhaps growing food in a different way as you give up land to flooding,” said University of British Columbia professor Stephen Sheppard. “The second set of levers is about how we reduce our carbon footprints in our communities, how Delta residents retrofit their homes or introduce renewable energy and get off fossil fuels, work closer to home, in effect, trying to turn off the tap on climate change.”