![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carbon dioxide removal schemes do not allow us to keep burning fossil fuels – the focus must be on rapid decarbonisation – but they will be necessary in a few decades’ time to reach our current climate goals and maybe even reverse some of the damage. The two most obvious examples of this are schemes to use the ocean to take up more carbon from the atmosphere, and to mine critical minerals from the deep sea. We’ve filled up the land with our buildings, infrastructure and agriculture, and just look at that vast expanse of water, waiting for humans to give it a purpose! But alongside all that, there’s a detectable assumption that the sea is available space to expand into. We’re hearing about the importance of the sea for the Earth’s carbon cycle, and possible changes in ocean circulation due to polar ice melt. The ocean was formally mentioned in the Paris climate agreement of 2015, but it was only in 2019 that an “ocean and climate change dialogue” became part of the UN’s climate COP processes. Unless humanity starts to see the ocean for what it really is – a critical part of our planetary life support system – we risk sleepwalking into destruction. More than 50 years after Apollo, the ocean is starting to get more attention, but a growing slice of the discussion is based on the assumption that it is there for us to use, a resource to be exploited, a great volume of “nothing” that human inventiveness is going to turn into “something”. The great ocean engine has just kept turning while we scurry about near its surface, only caring when its churning causes something dramatic that we can see – an algal bloom or a giant swarm of jellyfish. We talk about fish and whales, plastic and pollution – the things that are in the water – but not the water itself. Since then, we’ve talked proudly about our “blue planet” but without thinking any further about what that blue actually is. Those two unforgettable images – Earthrise and Blue Marble – showed us our fragile and precious planet, defined by its blue. The prize was travelling far enough out into space to look back properly at planet Earth. You could absolutely reuse these pieces to fit a contemporary, modern, or post-modern style study area-and they would totally work.T he real payoff from the Apollo missions had nothing to do with the moon. It introduces 14 new items for you to play with, making it one of the more extensive CC packs here (which we can always appreciate). You can create high-end enclosed booths (for Sims who want a little privacy), communal reading areas (with attractively asymmetrical end tables), and standalone chrome desks that are decked to the nines with newfangled tech and holograms. Seriously, the pieces in this set are gorgeous. Well this awesome CC pack by ShinoKCR beautifully combines post-modern edges with minimalist lines and muted-chrome colors to create an expensive-looking futuristic study-for the elite, tasteful, technology-driven Sim. Soloriya’s Eco Futuristic Set was all geometrical patterns and overlapping shapes, while their Futuristic Set followed a more colorful-contemporary-artwork vibe. ![]() It’s all here – completely converted and looking gorgeous in Sims 4 gameplay. Remember the futurist high chair? The circuit line wallpaper? The crazy solar panel flooring? It added a lot of new Skills and some Careers, too, which greatly increased its replay value.Īnd just to hit sappy old Sims players (like me) with a nostalgia bomb, BulldozerIvan’s CC pack brings the Into the Future aesthetic into The Sims 4 with some high-quality Build/Buy object conversions. This included a Time Portal, an Almanac of Time, jet packs, food replicators (instead of stoves), plus a new futuristic tech-riddled world, and even a friendly time traveler named Emit Relevart. The Into the Future pack, as you can guess, basically added a lot of futuristic, space-age-themed stuff to the game. (I mean, it may not be as iconic as The Sims 3: Katy Perry Sweet Treats stuff pack, but it was definitely more positively received.) If you were around long enough playing The Sims 3, then you probably remember the pretty iconic The Sims 3: Into the Future expansion pack. Into The Future Conversions Stuff Pack by BulldozerIvan ![]()
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