Forget Mad Max – What About Mad Drax?

Dr. John Happs

The 1979 Australian action movie Mad Max was set in asociety teetering on the brink of collapse. The screenwriter James McCausland, reflecting on the 1973 oil crisis, speculated about the prospect of Peak Oil and the violence that might accompany the end of oil:

The ferocity with which Australians would defend their right to fill a tank. Long queues formed at the stations with petrol-and anyone who tried to sneak ahead in the queue met raw violence. … George and I wrote the [Mad Max] script based on the thesis that people would do almost anything to keep vehicles moving …”

https://www.couriermail.com.au/business/scientists-warnings-unheeded/news-story/f4ca1ac96028f9c15d5d565efcff281e?sv=801cf324c28674e14cc330adb3266daandnk=fdb8dd65f8a4d5c184efd913f938acb1-1550985738

The notion of Peak Oil has been vigorously promoted by green groups and those vested interests wanting to promote biofuels and inefficient, unreliable wind and solar sources of energy. For instance, Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University of Technology and many others have frequently paraded the Peak Oil chimera.

https://islandpress.org/blog/peter-newmans-resilient-cities-sustainable-transport-city-0

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