Games like Battlefield 2042 embody the risk of climate wars being fought in the near future. Or are they already here?
Across the world, the military is increasingly thinking about climate change as the great “threat multiplier”. With its cascading consequences on every country, climate change will most probably be a big underlying reason for wars being fought in the future. Developers at DICE have well understood this and made their near-future Battlefield 2042 set in a world torn by climate change. It makes the game setting much more believable and grounded in reality than inventing one more mustache-twirling villain plotting to take control of the world!
In Horizon Zero Dawn, climate change and rising sea levels are the main cause of the whole storyline.
All sorts of future scenarios could be portrayed as partially caused by climate change, and it all combines to Acknowledge the Climate Emergency.