Only years after the death of Crichton I finally discovered his great value as a writer and it happened with this book, bought almost casually without knowing exactly what it was about, and that turned out to be very interesting for me.
The topic is that of the so-called theory of anthropogenic global warming, which is being analysed while the author tells a great story of action and adventure and in doing so offer us a lot of scientific pieces of information, all confirmed with real references, which can be checked, as they are listed in the large bibliography of the volume.
Considering the way in which the author dismantles the theory of global warming and complaints the speculation and sensationalism that accompany it, I completely understand why this book has never become a movie. It's too much against the trend. It goes against the economic interest of the moment.
Never allow the people read it and believe it!
Maybe one day, when public opinion will have enough of this ecological drama we are witnessing, the opposite theory will appear (will they tell us we are moving towards an ice age again?) and then maybe this book will come out and will be properly manipulated.
What the book says instead is that mankind is currently not able to demonstrate whether our planet is really going towards a global warming, so much so that every theory from 20 years ago was later denied. Much less mankind is able to prove whether they are able to influence these events (both positively and negatively) and to what extent.
Personally I doubt it, because in reality, as the same Crichton says, we are fragile in the face of nature's power and the only thing we can do is run and hide.
Being able to affect it is pure presumption.
State of Fear
on Amazon.com.
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