Actually, I loved Mad Max, and the Road Warrior-- great apocalypso cartoons. Loved the Interceptor too.
But then I love most movies that are extended metaphors for urban decay: Dawn of the Dead, Alien, Wolfen... once I wanted to organize and urban decay film festival. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Peak Everything > me: > > > we can ignore the "peak oil" stuff while attacking global warming and > > > making life more humane. > > Doug Henwood wrote: > > Seems to me the whole point of peak oil is to make something seem > > inevitable that its proponents find desirable, but politically > > impossible. We're more likely to break the climate, if we haven't > > already, before we running out of oil becomes a serious issue. > > there's a survivalist segment of the "peak oil" crowd, too. Maybe they > imagine a "Mad Max: future, with people wasting extremely expensive > gasoline to fight over gasoline. Frankly, I liked "A Boy & His Dog" > better. > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. >
