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Climate Games begin ahead of COP21

by David Roknich/IndyRadio
"Shift the game against profit and in favor of life" The California Academy of Sciences held a Climate Game Jam for budding game developers, but the real Climate Games will be in Paris on 30nov15, en route to COP21.
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Climategames.net says: you can't count on "austerity-dictating politicians, fossil fuel corporations, industry lobbyists, peddlers of false solutions and greenwashers" to do what's needed at COP21 in Paris this December. The climate games at will be played on live terrain, on the streets of Paris and the internet, quite unlike climate game development sponsered by the government.

In the US, Obama knows that whatever he says or does will be negated by the Neaderthals who rule Congress because of his intentional failure to challenge the Citizen's United court decision ahead of the 2010 election. This has held back climate progress worldwide and allows him to speak fine words to the climate constituency while handing over expanded drilling rights to oil companies. Our hope is for an upset in Congress like what Canada saw recently, but it's yet to be seen if Canada will act appropriately to force the cutback of carbon emissions in order to save the planet.

For 99.999% of us , there is no planet B. This one must be saved.

The climate games will push for that in Paris, but then we must take the victory home and ensure governments will no longer work for short term interests of the monied few. This has been said many times, but sword of Damocles hangs over us in a cloud of carbon dust and we must act to save our lives.

See you at the games.

David Roknich

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