Episode 116: Water Disasters
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Mad Max Fury Road and Water Scarcity
In Mad Max Fury Road, our main character Furiosa is trying to fight against a medieval kingdom run by a water despot. He who controls the water also controls things like high-tech transit. In Dune, everybody is obsessed with getting the spice, which is this thing that allows you to travel through space. So having more water actually wrecks your ability to have this other resource. Yeah. Just take a look at that movie. It's just an important text in the canon of water-based science fiction.
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