[wonderlust]

I changed my thinking on this after playing the game democracy 3. There are lots of ways to dramatically decrease co2 production, and a lot of ways to keep production minimal.

My favorite strategy was changing spending to subsidize rail over roads, subsidize and market bicycles, and push for electric cars. Not directly applicable necessarily, but the number of things that have lower co2 production as a side effect is pretty large.

[WalterBright]

Be careful about drawing conclusions about economy games. The rules in them are often set up to validate the theories of the game designers.

[awinter-py]

Or as feeder policies for presidential nominees. People claim Cain's 9-9-9 plan from whenever he ran was based on simcity.

[WalterBright]

Some people have told me that SimCity was based on Empire http://www.classicempire.com !