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Climate detour · Island planning game

The island is still here.

Keep the island running. A small budget, a few choices, and a plan you can rethink.

Can an island become hard to live on before it disappears? You allocate a limited budget across freshwater, access and housing projects, then see how the plan holds up in three illustrative events. Every scenario is solvable; no single affordable plan wins all three.

The island is anonymous and fictional: not NUS, not a real community, not a site-specific hazard forecast. Token costs and residents’ dialogue are invented teaching rules, not adaptation recommendations.

  1. The sea comes over A high-water event floods the low road, reaches homes and contaminates the well.
  2. The rain stays away A long dry spell empties the well and outlasts stored supplies. Roads and homes remain usable.
  3. The route matters too Strong waves threaten the exposed homes. Floodwater cuts the clinic route. The inland water supply is working.

Check the evidence · IPCC AR6 · Small islands (2022) ↗

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Independent project by Ambar, not affiliated with NUS or NEA. Experiments are illustrations; measured numbers carry their dates and sources.