CLIMATE CHANGE, THE VIDEO GAME
The ‘Biggest Entertainment Launch of the Year’ Is All About Climate Change
Brian Merchant, November 12, 2015 (MotherBoard)
“Climate change is routinely called the biggest threat humanity’s ever faced, but pop culture missed the memo. While there’s a burgeoning genre devoted to hot earth fiction in literature, led by Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake), Nathaniel Rich (The Odds Against Tomorrow), Paolo Bacigalupi (the Water Knife) and others, there still hasn’t been a whole hell a lot of climate movement in our most-watched media—film, TV, or video games. This week, though, we saw a bit of progress, courtesy of Call of Duty…[in which the latest installment’s most persistent enemy] is actually climate change. The game takes place in a globally warmed 2065, and players face environmental extremes wherever they go—dust storms in Egypt, floods and hurricane winds in Singapore, and so on…And Call of Duty is huge. This is the series that routinely beats out summer blockbusters at the box office…” click here for more
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