A new video uses footage from 'Grand Theft Auto V' to explore the climate crisis

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'Plastic Scoop,' a new video from photographer Andy Hughes and Dr. Mandy Bloomfield explores pollution and global warming through the fictional state of San Andreas in 'Grand Theft Auto V.'

connects mass culture with our current best understanding of the coming consequences of a changing climate, which will include an increase in extreme weather, like droughts and floods, plus dire consequences for ocean life and human social systems, including substantial drops in crop yields, mass population displacement and flare-ups of diseases like malaria.Grand Theft Auto V

from a perspective outside of the primary mechanisms of gameplay, including the grand theft auto so essential to the game's cast of criminals. Instead, it finds invisual parallels to the billions of pounds of plastic pollution swirling atop approximately 40 percent of our oceans' surfaces. Hughes, an award-winning photographer, uses plastic litter and other waste materials in his projects, and saw the same proliferation of garbage in the game environments. He began capturing in-game footage of cityscapes choked with litter, Los Santos air pollution and deep sea waste.University of Plymouth / Rockstar Games

"Gaming and virtual reality has often been accused of being a form of escapism that actually takes away from the material world and in some respects perhaps distracts us from many of the problems in material reality," Bloomfield said in a video interview."We'd like to find out whether there are ways in which virtual realities in gaming can in fact bring people back to thinking about the issues that affect the material world.

 

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e is what is funny about his article. Andy Hughes and Dr. Mandy Bloomfield just look at the room they are in including the glasses they wear, I see a lot of plastic.Made from petro products. That is why I say practice what you preach before you try to sale me on it.

I've been mauled by a couple of mountain lions on GTA V.

Just more evidence that the ClimateChange hoax is a fraud.

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