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    Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”

    by Brian Gallagher Dec 12, 2016 2 minutes

    Mad Max: Fury Road envisions an embarrassing, nightmarish future. Worldwide droughts have driven humanity to nuclear war over water, destroying modern civilization, and disfiguring the earth into a planet-spanning Sahara. Decrepit old goons control the last remaining pockets of groundwater and arable land; essentially, the movie is one drawn-out, violent chase scene through a sterile and withered landscape. Entertaining, for sure. But could such drastic desertification really happen on Earth?

    One of the few aquifers left, operated

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