Hello everyone, 

Last game I had I built a wind farm in one of my cities and the related event appeared. It was the one about voting on building more wind farms due to the citizens concerns about the landscape. This made me think that although Humankind did a really good job in introducing Nature in the game and some events related to environmental degradation since the beginning, it still lacks some depth. 

To start with, I still remember my hype with the Lucy trailer and how the narratos said she chose her empire to go vegetarian. However, there is no such event, policy or tenet related to vegetarian diets. I think it would be interesting to add this mechanic since some religions and cultures, like Buddhism, are characterized by a vegetarian diet.

Moreover, the pollution system is quite basic and I'm missing global warming, rising sea levels, droughts, intense raining, wild fires, etc. Also, natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, volcanos, asteroids, could make the world feel even more alive. I think this content could come as an expansion (?)

Just some random ideas I had while playing, thanks for reading !

I think just having increasingly levels of pollution cause increasingly severe and more frequent weather related natural disasters (tornadoes, wild fires, droughts, floods, etc.) and related random events as well as providing tools to effectively control and reduce pollution levels which in turn reduces the frequency and severity of natural disasters would be sufficient. It might not be super realistic but I think that would strike the balance of simulating global warming and being palatable from a gameplay standpoint.  Perhaps the natural disasters can just be random events and not actually occur on the map like they do in Civ 6.

I also like the idea of natural disasters and global warming events.

Some natural disasters could appear from the start of the game as they are not necessarily pollution induced (such as earthquakes and volcanoes).

@darkarrow ?

Really interesting idea about state-enforced vegetarianism... I suppose with those sorts of things it might add a layer of complexity with things like trade - for example would you then receive negative effects for trading for the Argentinian's salted beef?  Can you un-trade an item once you've traded for it once, or do you have to find all of your salted beef trading lanes and ransack them yourself?