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Is a curve more constrained than what it represents? Why?
Why I bother to ask will probably be given away from my example of a new
Carbon Offsets board game done by a Princeton environmental education
program and sponsored by AAAS (as heard on NPR). It's really a
wonderful educational tool, but with a surprise ending! The idea is
that you need 7 carbon offset wedges (ramping up some choice of new
technologies up over 50 years). Maybe you'd do two solar ones, three
nukes, and two conservation ones, but their huge size, cost, impacts,
and institutional & political implications, etc. makes them really tough
choices. It's a simple model, and looks like a wonderful group process
educational game.
When I first described it to some folks I thought it was actually a
board game, and that the idea was for the first move to lead to a
second, but then I noticed that it's not quite like that. At the end of
the very first had of play, time just sort of dribbles off all bye
itself, whew.., gone, kaput, aaa..nd the-game-is-over! Hmmmm...
from the shape of the triangle, can you predict the actual next hand in
the game?
http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/climate_change/mtg_200702/wedge_concept_teacher_guide.pdf
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