Part 4 – Simulation Exercise

HKRC. HEO. Simulation exercise. 倒數小島 20 年

Your home is on the Island - Itabirik
 Step 1. Choose a character
Role: Father Role: Mother
Age: 43 Age: 38
Occupation: Farmer Occupation: Housewife
Note: Long-term foot injury which limits his Health: Pregnant
movements and causes him pain Note: Educated up to secondary school grade 10
Assets: $3,000 Assets: $2000

Role: Son Role: Daughter

Age: 18 Age: 15
Occupation: Electrician Occupation: Student and helps out on the farm
Note: educated up to secondary school grade 10 Note: In secondary school grade 9
Assets: $2,000 Assets: $1,000

Take a few small pieces of paper, each represents 100. The number pieces should match the amount of asset you have.

Rule: Personal assets can be shared with their families with the consent of the individual.
Assets are expected to be assets for the next two decades and will not increase.
Insufficient assets will affect survival.
 Step 2. Write down on one piece of paper the
things that you need for staying healthy and safe
 20 years left

Scientists say that your country will be covered by sea water in 20 years at the current rate
of global warming.

Your Government says that it will do whatever it takes to protect the public
safety, assets, and development.

What will you do next? How would you use your assets?
 18 years left
Decision 1
Enhance your community resilience
The government is in talks to buy the uninhabited
islands of country A to relocate the entire population.
The plan will take 10 years to complete.
In the meantime, foreign assistance has arrived for
strengthening disaster prevention capacity and build
embankments around residential and urban. There is
now a new tax of levy an $1,000 per person
Do you agree with the plan?
Decision 2
Work on reducing green house gases
Country B is a developed country and a large exporter of
coal and natural gases.
In recent years, your government has clashed with
Countries B over issues on emissions reductions.
Local groups have launched a joint and peaceful
demonstration to demand that Countries B reduce
emissions.
Will you get involved?
 17 years left
Climate change causes strong typhoons, destroying large numbers of crops and land.
Decision 1

Did you agree to pay $1,000/person to

strengthen community resilience?

Yes No

- $500 - $1000
 16 years left
Your government has an agreement with Country A to prepare infrastructure for
relocation.
Decision 3

Someone offers to smuggle you to country B for $2,000/person.

Would you do it?

Yes No
Instead of going to country B, the people take you to a
low resource country and force you to work without Continue to next
pay. They hold your passport and property. They do decision
not let you leave.
 All of your assets are lost.

Later, with help from anti-human trafficking groups

and your government, you are able return to Itabirik.
 15 years left
Decision 4
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is assisting all families in raising their housing platforms to strengthen disaster
prevention capacity. It will provide some of the cost but the families need to cover $1,000/per family.

Do you agree with the plan?

5 years later, typhoons are more No

Yes frequent and more intense

Continue - $2000
 5 years left
All citizens of your country will be able to stay free of charge as climate
refugees in the uninhabited island of country A.

Each family is allocated two places to enter the island first.

Who's going first?

 3 years left
Climate change worsened and a super-large tornado swept across the country.
The death and disappearance rate reached 90 %.
The surviving government leaders are unable to deal with the disaster.
They announces the dissolution of the government.
The survivors are accepted by the neighbouring five countries.
Itabirik no longer exists.
The END of Simulation