WWF has created a game where you are president or president of the Republic. You have to manage to get through a whole mandate by obtaining the “climate pass”, a roadmap suggested by WWF for environmental issues.
But where is the environment in the presidential campaign? In a column published in early 2022, no less than 1,400 scientists regretted the lack of debate on the climate crisis and its upheavals. At a time when the 6th report of the IPCC alerts while delivering possible solutions, they called on the candidates to get out of ” talk of inaction “.
To also raise awareness of the environmental challenges of the coming five-year term, the non-governmental organization WWF has proposed the establishment of a “climate pass”. The idea would be for each decision to be subject to environmental objectives, then ” each bill, each decision will have to be evaluated to know what impact, positive, neutral or negative, its adoption would create “. This pass would be controlled by an independent body acting as ” climate watch “.
” The climate pass will function as a ‘pass’, a real sesame, without which any political proposal may be rejected. Firstly to offer the opportunity to those who formally take the decisions (the government, the deputies, the senators) to adjust the content in order to guarantee that this decision is in line with the ecological objectives, and to develop heart of our democracy a true ‘climate reflex’ “, explains WWF.
This idea is more of an information campaign than a measure that the candidates seem ready to accept. But to allow you to experience part of this pass, the organization has developed an app that puts you at the head of the country for a whole five-year term. Named “callmepresident”, this little game launched on March 24 makes you take on the role of president by conditioning your success to the objectives of this famous climate pass.
Total fiasco or success for the environment? The WWF game
The game (available directly on the browser) takes the form of a smartphone home screen, on which you find all the usual applications – except the nuclear red button which is certainly not common.
Over the course of your five-year term, you receive text messages, emails, calls, but also sometimes tweets and AFP dispatches, and you will have to make various decisions depending on their climate impact. At the same time, it is necessary to maintain the gauges of economy, health and geopolitics, while keeping a positive reputation.
The game distills over these choices some information on very real environmental issues (we would have liked a little more “bubbles” of this kind in the game).
At the end of your term, if you didn’t have the bad idea to start a war, it will be assessed as a “total fiasco” or an environmental success. Also listed are the species that you have succeeded in protecting or not.
It remains a simple game that takes less than 10 minutes, far from all the real complexity of environmental policies, but it has the merit of guiding in ecological issues and finding a place for them in the presidential campaign.
