Futuristic computer game hopes to be tonic for climate change anxiety

'Survive The Century' is a climate fiction game about the political, environmental and social choices humans will face between 2021 and 2100. — Handout via Survive the Century

It is the year 2050, the planet is warming up, meals come from nutritional food packs and dozens of new zoonotic viruses are spreading. As the editor of an influential newspaper, how would you try to shape public opinion?

This is one of the scenarios encountered by players of an online game launched on May 10, which uses humour and interactive decision-making to encourage people to think about the future of climate change, and what they can do about it.