This committee contains a moderate level of crisis.

Sirens wail in the distance. Las Vegas is in a state of disarray; what began as a mild tremor has triggered a full-blown seismic catastrophe. Entire districts have been flooded by an inland tsunami, and to make matters worse, downed power lines have caused a communications blackout. 

Sin City is far from the only place to be struck by climate disaster. With firestorms in Australia and baseball-sized hail in Tokyo, the state of emergency is global. It is amidst this chaos that an emergency council convenes in upstate New York. Welcome to the Global Climate Emergency Council (GCEC), a hastily-formed coalition of military personnel, scientists, politicians, activists, and the odd media celebrity, granted unprecedented powers in the name of survival. You are not convening in a marble-floored UN chamber. You are seated on folder chairs under a leaking tent, while the world outside waits for answers. 

Beginning your work at the peak of panic, your mission is to stabilize cities facing rapidly evolving climate crises (including emergencies that remain to be seen), managing threats from rogue actors, devastated infrastructure, and a fragmented media environment. Then, once the storms begin to clear, you will face an even harder task: determining what the world should look like when the dust settles.

How do you ration limited emergency resources? Can you suppress public panic without crossing moral lines? Do you trust experimental technologies, and when it comes to loosening jurisdictions in times of crisis, do you trust each other?

The stage is set: cities are falling, power is slipping, civilian morale is as fragile as ever… and the worst may still be yet to come.

The tornadoes aren’t in Kansas anymore, and neither are you.

Welcome to the GCEC. Let’s see if humanity can get one last chance at tomorrow.

The Dais