6/28/2023 0 Comments State of Fear by Michael Crichton![]() Behind the terrorists lurks the fantatical, fund-seeking chief of a mainstream environmental group on Kenner's team, most notably, is young attorney Peter Evans, aka everyman, whose typically liberal views on global warming chill as Kenner instructs him in the truth about the so-called crisis. A team lead by MIT scientist/federal agent John Kenner crosses the globe to prevent the terrorists from calving a giant Antarctic iceberg inducing terrible storms and flash floods in the US and, using giant cavitators, causing a Pacific tidal wave. Crichton dramatizes his message by way of a frantic chase to prevent environmental terrorists from wreaking widespread destruction aimed at galvanizing the world against global warming. ![]() If he is wrong, then the novel will be remembered simply as another smart and robust, albeit preachy, addition to an astonishing writing career that has produced, among other works, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure and The Andromeda Strain. If Crichton is right-if the scientific evidence for global warming is thin if the environmental movement, ignoring science, has gone off track if we live in what he in his Author's Message calls a ""State of Fear,"" a ""near-hysterical preoccupation with safety that's at best a waste of resources and a crimp on the human spirit, and at worst an invitation to totalitarianism""-then his extraordinary new thriller may in time be viewed as a landmark publication, both cautionary and prophetic. ![]()
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