Environmental wars that were once fictional are now reality

. Beyond planting trees, African countries need to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to conserve its forest [File, Standard]

It is, to rephrase a statement from former US President Bill Clinton, “climate change stupid.” When the first “Mad Max” movie came out in 1979, and “Mad Max 2” followed in 1981, the world they portrayed, of bizarrely tattooed murderous biker gangs, living out brutal lives in desolate environmental ghettoes formed after a societal collapse due to, among other things, a shortage of fuel and water, must have seemed to many like a fertile flight of movie making fancy.

By the time the fourth “Mad Max: Fury Road” came out in 2015, the world had changed. The tattooed gangs were familiar and everywhere, as we have become a heavily tattooed species.