Apparently a quote from environmental activist Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians has made it into the new Mad Max movie.  The Council of Canadians even wonders aloud if Barlow is the inspiration for Mad Max. The quote from Barlow in Mad Max is that "the world is actually running out of water," sampled from the documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars.  The National Post covered the story, and never once thought to examine whether Barlow's claim was true – which it most certainly is not, if we consider any meaningful time frame.  Barlow repeated the claims at the Nairobi Social Forum: "I want to talk, comrades and friends, about a global crisis in which we know the world is actually running out of water."  Comrades? Although the "Earth's oceans have lost about a quarter of their original mass ... over the course of around four billion years," the Danish researchers studying this issue noted the...(Read Full Post)