CNET: How Minecraft Is Teaching Kids to Face the Threat of Climate Change. “How do you teach a child about bushfires that could engulf their home? How do you teach a child about how floods and rising sea levels loom over parts of their country? In a place like Australia, where climate catastrophes are not only common, but becoming increasingly ever present, it’s all the more important to prepare children for the future. What better tool than the game they already spend all their free time playing? Minecraft is the answer. If you build it, they will learn.”