epimenide wrote:
As a personal comment, in this phase I’d focus more on the general “energy management” side: there IS indeed awareness that energy is and will be of the utmost importance for our future, the simple fact that fusion reactors would be present at all in the game, and in all its forms, should be a good start…

Welcome epimenide; great first post (though I hope you do not fulfill the Cretan criteria yourself)

I think you have hit the nail on the head. The really exciting part of the game comes when the player starts to recognise what “could be” if energy is readily affordable by all, clean and (relatively) easily distributed. If this can be built into the “rewards-for-clicks” aspect of the game people should be beating down the doors to put this into (the place generally accepted as) the real world.