Dirt is the star in this free-to-play, cooperative board game. Really.
. Interested players can print out the board game, cards, and characters.
“I love board games. I love to play them,” Taparia says. One day a friend, who researches microplastics in soil, floated the idea of creating a board game on the subject. “We struggle to share our research sometimes with friends and family, because there’s so many ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ and ‘if onlys.’ There’s all these technicalities that’s really difficult to explain to someone who is not in the field,” Taparia explains.
Board games offer a relatively unexplored medium of communication, a social and playful one, that can help explain a subject with many details and technicalities, she adds. And understanding soil might be more urgent than ever. A thin and fragile skin that coats the planet, soil supports almost all food production, filters water, regulates the Earth’s temperature and stores more than
. In large parts of the world, it’s been significantly degraded by human forces like industrial agriculture, deforestation, urbanization, and pollution.But sometimes, it seems as if people have no clue what’s going on below their feet. They think that soil will always be there and that it doesn’t require any management, Taparia says.
“I don’t think they realize the impact [the chemicals] have on the soil,” she says. “It gives them a high yield and that’s good from an economic perspective. But from a more long-term perspective, that is not sustainable. It takes thousands of years to make [new] soil.”The game is an exercise in collaboration, which she says is key to sustainability work.
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