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Fossil fuels
Published on December 11th, 2014
by Christopher DeMorro
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Scientists have been warning us for decades about the very real and likely consequences of climate change, but there are still large elements within our society that refuse to acknowledge the problem. If the world can’t wean itself off of oil, will the future look like the one depicted in the latest Mad Max: Fury Road trailer? One can only hope.
What’s this got to do with green cars? Nothing and everything when you really think about it. For the most part this is just-another-Hollywood-blockbuster where people still find time to be sexy in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and huge explosions are just par for course. That said, the classic tunes chosen for the soundtrack take me back to lonely days playing on my computer, Classical Thunder deafening me as I shot/slashed my way through whatever game I was playing at the time.
Beyond that though, is it really that difficult to picture a world where our primary energy source is tapped, and there’s no replacement? Mad Max is the worst-case-scenario personified, because if the world fails to smoothly transition from one energy source to another, civil unrest, scarcity of food, and even war could be fought over the last remaining sources of oil (if we don’t choke on all the emissions first).
It’s not just oil governments will go to war over. Water, clean air, and living space are all growing concerns for people around the world, even those that refuse to acknowledge a problem exists. If the world doesn’t mend its fossil fuel-burning ways, a future not unlike Mad Max might be waiting for us all.
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About the Author
Christopher DeMorro A writer and gearhead who loves all things automotive, from hybrids to HEMIs, Chris can be found wrenching or writing- or esle, he’s running, because he’s one of those crazy people who gets enjoyment from running insane distances.
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Chris – I think you’re putting too much weight on a movie that, for all intents and purposes, is going to suck.
It’s like asking if Dudley Moore was the proper representation of an elf in that Santa Claus movie.
I think Chris made himself clear. The movie is just a movie. But the likelihood of a world at war with itself over rapidly diminishing resources is only too real.
The scene is already set, as nations race to claim new territory in the Arctic thanks to the melting of the ice cap. Of course, no one stops to think that the REASON the ice is melting is because of mankind’s profligate use of fossil fuels in the first place. The idiocy of using the damage already done to the Earth because of fossil fuel extraction as an excuse for MORE fossil fuel extraction just doesn’t seem to sink in to people’s brains.
The movie may suck, but the future we are blissfully creating is going to suck a whole lot more.
Eh, I always liked the Mad Max movies more than most post-apoc flicks. I really just wanted an excuse to write about a trailer full of explosions and one of my favorite classical tunes.