The Conversation

Mon Oct 22

How a game can move people from climate apathy to action

Written by Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell

High school students at the University of Maine Farmington’s Upward Bound program playing the World Climate simulation. Mary Sinclair, CC BY-ND

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been called a “deafening” alarm and an “ear-splitting wake-up call” about the need for sweeping...

How a game can move people from climate apathy to action

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