GAMES PEOPLE PLAY:
FARM SIMS FOR THE FUTURE By Katryna Starks Ph.D.
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HUMAN FUTURES
S we look around our world, it’s
complex, multi-pronged solutions that
easy to see that there is much
can be enacted quickly on a worldwide
that needs to be done in order
scale. While policy makers can, and do,
to move into a healthy, sustainable
meet in world summits to explore the
future – or even a future at all. Our air
best solutions, there is a rogue factor
and water is polluted, our crops have
that is diff icult to control. That rogue
lost nutrients due to corporate farming
factor is us. Social ills require social
practices, our energy sources are taxed
solutions – which requires re-training
and in danger of depletion, and our
thoughts, attitudes and behaviors on an
inhumane treatment of animals and
international scale, using method that
people in the name of food and prof it
people will wholeheartedly participate in.
are producing results that threaten our
Video games offer unique opportunities
very existence. These issues require
to help people not only imagine and
