Catan Scenarios: Global Warming

Description

"Catan" is a strategic settlement game emphasizing expansion, resource use, and environmental consequences from development. Key mechanics include: - *Settlement expansion* Players build villages, cities, roads, and armies to accommodate growing populations. - *Resource exploitation* Abundant resources enable development but strain the land. - *Environmental toll* Construction and rapid growth emit greenhouse gases, risking catastrophe. - *Sustainability decisions* Players choose between sustainable practices to combat global warming or aggressive pursuit of individual victory. - *Population management* Balancing settlers' needs challenges both players and the ecosystem. Catan welcomes players as settlers to a resource-rich land ideal for expansion, where developing villages, cities, roads, and armies to meet population demands exacts a heavy environmental toll through landscape destruction and greenhouse gas emissions. Unchecked rapid development threatens catastrophic global warming effects, forcing players to weigh sustainable development against ruthless individual victory, no matter the planetary cost.