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Big oil is griefing young gamers

Aug 24, 2024 | theecologist.org | Andrew Simms

Camping, crafting, cheesing, griefing - not descriptors of a summer holiday gone horribly wrong. These are just samples from the specialised language now evolving in the rapidly expanding world of gaming and esports, terms that are usually indecipherable to outsiders.
eSportswashing: How the Youth Gaming Market is Being Targeted by Major Climate Polluters

Aug 23, 2024 | desmog.com | Andrew Simms |Matthew Green

As an insurgent sport among the sweat and strain of more traditional exertions, esports — short for electronic sports and synonymous with gaming — had a chance to chart a new course. Free from the sponsorship links with polluting industries that tarnish many established sports, and with an overwhelmingly young and growing player and fanbase, esports could have created a blueprint for sport in the 21st century and the critical climate issues it faces.
Sport needs to tell a new story

Jul 24, 2024 | theecologist.org | Andrew Simms

Being a billboard for some of the world’s biggest polluters is a strange look for the Paris 2024 Olympics, an event that promised to be ‘The greenest games ever’. With this summer set to be the , sport needs to tell a better tale. And it can, because sport is a story machine. Struggle. Defeat. The fall from grace. Comeback. Last minute victory. Redemption… All these vye in every unpredictable variation. AddictiveAs seasons, years and careers roll-by, sport constantly resets.
The Polluters of Paris

Jul 16, 2024 | desmog.com | Andrew Simms |Matthew Green

At the end of this month, the French capital will host humanity’s biggest and brightest celebrations of sport: the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The hype ahead of these games — the 33rd — is palpable and the organisers have promised to deliver a Games like no other. Sustainability has been central to this promise. As humanity begins to stare down one of the greatest upheavals of the 21st century — the planetary crises of global heating and ecological catastrophe — the Games are under pressure.
Sing a song of urban nature

Jun 21, 2024 | theecologist.org | Andrew Simms

Andrew Simms Music can help us fall back in love with nature in the towns and cities where most people live, and is vital to survive and thrive. One way to show what we value and are prepared to fight for is to write and sing songs. Our Urban Nature is one small example. Nature sings to us with the dawn chorus to welcome every day, let’s sing back just as often as we fight to restore it.
Polluters Are Melting the Winter Sports They Sponsor

Mar 16, 2024 | desmog.com | Andrew Simms |Anna Jonsson |Matthew Green

Would a chicken run be sponsored by foxes, or a mouse party by cats? Not only would that be extremely provocative, it would join actors whose survival interests are in fundamental conflict. So, why is sponsorship from major climate polluters pouring into winter sports like an oil slick, just as snow sports’ very existence is threatened by global heating? It’s not a small problem, like the odd stone hidden in a snowball.
Greenwashing Through Sport

Feb 21, 2024 | desmog.com | Freddie Daley |Andrew Simms |Emily Gertz

Later this week, Formula One’s wildly popular documentary series, Drive to Survive, will return with a sixth season. The dramatic show, which captures the highs and lows of motorsports’ biggest stage, boasts almost seven million viewers. The show has been pivotal for driving a whole new generation of fans to F1, a sport that now has an estimated 1.56 billion adoring devotees worldwide.
After Paris’s coup against SUVs, the UK should slam the brakes on these polluting monsters too | Andrew Simms

Feb 6, 2024 | theguardian.com | Andrew Simms

Paris has developed a taste for better city living. Its vote to begin pricing sports utility vehicles (SUVs) off its streets by tripling parking charges is part of a diet for reversing autobesity – the trend by car manufacturers towards larger, more dangerous and polluting cars. It’s not difficult to see what has driven Parisians’ ire: thereasons to dislike SUVs form a tailback so long it’s hard to see the front of the queue. First, they get in the way.
Car maker's historic climate makeover

Jan 15, 2024 | theecologist.org | Andrew Simms

What if the world's biggest car maker by sales admitted and apologised for its mistakes of the past and committed to become a company able to provide clean mobility and fit for the climate emergency? The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned a ‘Born to Roam’ SUV advert for breaching rules on social responsibility on Wednesday, 22 November 2023.
Economic prospects in 2024: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

Jan 2, 2024 | newweather.org | Andrew Simms

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute is part of that survey published in the paper today, and here are our responses collected together. They argue that if the government is genuinely concerned about making people feel better before the next election a sharp refocus is needed on boosting the drivers of quality of life rather than just increasing consumption.