Opinion: TikTok stars and YouTube gamers are the new climate warriors


A gamer uses a PS4 controller as he plays the new Ubisoft video game 'Watch Dogs Legion' in Brussels. Twenty eight video game companies with a combined audience of over 970 million players have joined the United Nations’ Playing for the Planet Alliance, pledged to reduce emissions and to insert green elements into games. — AFP

Forget politics and religion, the culture wars of our time are between moss lovers and lawn mowers, and if you haven’t realised yet it’s because you haven’t been spending enough time on TikTok.

On the corners of the Internet most frequented by people born this century, manicured lawns are frowned upon because they can’t be walked on, require fertiliser, need too much water and are boring and ugly (sorry, Versailles).

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