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["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

You are right sort of Georg. But then I have always seen the Mad Max films 
as completely innocent to facts of ecology and physiology. People drink 
highly radioactive water without a single bad effect and regard it as a 
luxury. Pigs in huge numbers are used to produce gas in the middle of a 
foodless desert. Both humans and pigs live and fight and fornicate without 
the need to drink or eat in a place where there is nothing to drink or eat.

In fact the only thing that is really important in the films is not running 
out of oil to drive the SUV's at high speed. It is a vindication of and 
propaganda for everything big oil stands for today : tar sands, wars of 
terror in the Middle East, BP spillages in the Gulf and hydro fracking. And 
I could easily imagine that big oil had sponsored the Mad Max films with an 
extra top up from the NRA.

Not exactly realistic collapse and nothing to do with permaculture imo.
john

> > Do not forget that less than ten years ago it was completely
> > impossible to
> > mention possible collapse in polite society.
>
> I do not agree. MAny sciemce fiction deals with scenarios after the
> collaps - e.g. "Mad MAx" with Mel Gibson, which is now more than 30
> years old, was actually a blockbuster.
>
> bamboothiastically,
> georg
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