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How the makers of a beloved board game reworked it to address the climate crisis
Jasmin Balle, Morgan Dontanville and Benjamin Teuber, from left, play an early version of Catan: New Energies while the game was still in development.
Courtesy CATAN GmbH
CNN —
For many people, games are an escape into a world of fun and fantasy.
It may come as a surprise, then, that the newest edition of a popular board game deals directly with a timely issue that’s not quite so fun: the climate crisis.
Catan, a game about collecting and using resources such as bricks and lumber to build and expand settlements in a fictional world, turns 30 next year. While the company has since released numerous versions and expansions — and sold more than 45 million copies worldwide — its latest edition, Catan: New Energies, is one of the biggest departures for the game so far.
Instead of gameplay set in pre-industrial times, New Energies is set in the 21st century, with real elements such as power plants and pollution playing a major role.
In many ways, it makes sense for a game about the rapid expansion of humanity to explore the effects of the climate crisis. After all, industrialization caused it.
You may not expect a game about the climate crisis to be fun — or to be backed by deep research on the intricacies of the topic. But the developers of New Energies worked hard to balance joyful play with environmental science. And they’re not the first.
More games are tackling the climate crisis
In fact, climate change — or elements often related to it — is popping up in more games as the topic becomes increasingly prevalent in news reports and cultural conversations.The popular empire-building video game “Civilization 6” released an expansion titled Gathering Storm in 2019, which was almost wholly centered around climate.
In Gathering Storm, players’ actions such as burning coal have major repercussions — rising sea levels and more frequent natural disasters such as tornadoes — which affect gameplay.
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A large coach bus with a police escort just went past me down Washington St in the direction of The Garden. Possibly a certain group of very tall men from Dallas?
I would suspect that they are all undocumented foreign nationals sent by DeSantis and his Texas allies to be a burden on local government. I expect they will demand the food, jobs, and housing that they were promised by DeSantis.
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If you had had (and used) the opportunity to take the air out of its tires, you could have been responsible for DeflateGate II.
Transcontinental railroad in the US
July 1, 1862: Congress passes the Pacific Railroad Bill, granting land and government bonds to Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
Oct. 26, 1863: The Central Pacific railroad begins work on the new line.
July 10, 1865: The first rails are laid in Omaha. The Union Pacific side of the project is finally underway.
May 10, 1869 the Trancontinetal Railroad in the US is completed when the two rail lines meet in Utah.
June 4, 1876: An express train travels from New York City to San Francisco in 83 hours and 39 minutes.
July 1, 1862: Congress passes the Pacific Railroad Bill, granting land and government bonds to Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
Oct. 26, 1863: The Central Pacific railroad begins work on the new line.
July 10, 1865: The first rails are laid in Omaha. The Union Pacific side of the project is finally underway.
May 10, 1869 the Trancontinetal Railroad in the US is completed when the two rail lines meet in Utah.
June 4, 1876: An express train travels from New York City to San Francisco in 83 hours and 39 minutes.
Gori the Grey
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Bidenomics.
I think this version costs less in the US, and it's not exactly high-tech. Just a spring with a painted scale ^^
Digital ones are certainly better, but also more expensive.
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Because it costs about 3.5 Euros to make including parts and labor.
I am not convinced. I reckon there is a lot of surplus value there.
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The stated RRP is 23 Euros!
I wonder where it was made. Your site is a timed sale site which may have buyer name collection as a goal over pofits. It may be a lost leader designed to add other items to the ticket. In any case I do not see the 7 euro price as outlandish from a retailer. Tpically in the US you will see stores aim for 100% or so mark up as a standard. That allows for profits even when marked down 30%!
I wonder where it was made. Your site is a timed sale site which may have buyer name collection as a goal over pofits. It may be a lost leader designed to add other items to the ticket. In any case I do not see the 7 euro price as outlandish from a retailer. Tpically in the US you will see stores aim for 100% or so mark up as a standard. That allows for profits even when marked down 30%!
It is temu, everything is on a countdown but everything is really cheap. My suspicion the temu price is probably only a little over what a retailer gets it for.
This I agree with.
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I wonder if she herself edited the page and just no one has noticed.
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Or forgot a dash.
Looking through the entry history, she seems to first show up 5 September 2023.
I'm on to you 102.208,149.18, you and your "glassy skin."
Looking through the entry history, she seems to first show up 5 September 2023.
I'm on to you 102.208,149.18, you and your "glassy skin."
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