State of Fear

From the book group we had on Multiply:


Thank you Mary for inviting me to co-host the blog for State of Fear.
This book, although written several years ago, is still timely in it's approach to the great conflict that rages still between the ecologists,  the environmental groups and the industrialists. One group talks of "green house effect" and "global warming" and the others say, "Nonsense ... your data is faulty."
Micheal Crichton seems to overwhelm us with footnotes and bibliography, making this seem more like a text book rather than a piece of fiction. As individual readers we have to take a side as to what is real and what is fiction, what we are willing to believe, what we are not and from whom.
The one thing we have in our favor is the passage of time since the book was first published. As we read it, we must factor in what we know now that we didn't when the book was written.
We will have to decide if the intervening years and the availability of information on the internet alters the concepts introduced in the book one way or another.
Have fun!