„Cooling down!“- the game around global warming
Climate-Justice vs. Worldpower Energy
A thought-provocing boardgame around climate change, energy efficiency and “Good Governance”
By Dr. Otto Ulrich, Germany
The Idea of the game is to widen environmental awareness
towards a globally oriented consciousness. This shall include the relations
between global warming, energy options, greenhouse effect and natural disasters.
All of us are facing worldwide one basic question: Will the world community,
the “human family”, be capable of reducing the forseen greenhousegas
emissions around 50 % up to 2050?
Indeed, exactly this is the question in this (simulations-)game,
too!
The players are representing the human beings, the so-called world community,
they have to be very active in facing the challenge: Do you want to be rich
or do you prefer to rescue the world?
Or: In the race between time – from 1840 to 2050
– and increasing Carbon dioxide concentration you have to choose between
different CO2 reduction-strategies; you have to find, in cooperation with
others, ways to minimize the CO2-levels, otherwise we will face a cowdung-society
…
This game brings orientation. It will improve global thinking and thinking
in alternative energy-options; it will open the view about intercultural
behaviour, it will give regional based sustainable hints for the every day-to-day-energy
use, and - last but not least - it will show a realistic (and, in the context
of this game) a playable “Kyoto-PLUS-strategy”.
Finally, the game shows ways towards climate justice,
and also new approaches in the fight against poverty.
“Cooling down!” is a trainingsfield for growing world-consciousness.
The prototype is ready, the test activities
are going on. The game will be published in german und english, firstly
– in 2 language: german and english.
A presentation in Auroville, South-India in this spring was very successful.
A English version is on the way.
Now “Cooling down!” needs international support.
Are you interested in further information? Don’t hesitate.
Das Spiel basiert auf den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen des Buches:
Peter Hennicke/Michael Müller: Weltmacht Energie, 2006
dem Endbericht der Enq.-Kom. des Deutschen Bundestages: Nachhaltige Energieversorgung:
(BT-Drs. 14/9400)
dem neuen Bericht der IPCC, 2007
dem Buch von Al Gore: Eine unbequeme Wahrheit, 2006
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