Lithium

Lithium is a strategy game about opposition to a planned lithium mining project in Cínovec, Czechia. You choose to play as one of three social groups—Activists, Locals or the City—and work to halt the project and open debate about a just, environmentally friendly solution.

Organize opposition

You can stall the mining project to prevent the developer from completing its plans, or work with the other social groups toward collective action. Organizing a deliberative forum on the environmental consequences of lithium mining can help bring the groups together.

To win, you need cooperation across all three groups and enough societal support for your actions. Each group has different actions and tools, and your choices may provoke unexpected reactions.

Weigh the consequences

Your strategy must account for the local community, the global economy, the climate crisis, impacts on nature and a just energy transition. The game explores lithium mining in Cínovec in the wider context of the global energy transformation.