Posted on 01/01/2005 11:31:53 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
Michael Crichton's new novel, "State of Fear," not only unfairly bashes the global environmental movement but represents yet another example of how multinational corporations and their political allies are invading the popular culture to advance fanatic and lunatic right-wing ideas and agendas.
The book demonizes scientists who argue that the world is heading toward cataclysmic weather change unless something is done about the spewing forth of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere.
Crichton develops a story line that has environmentalists and scientists creating weather-making doomsday machines that wreak havoc on the planet.
Killer hurricanes, towering tidal waves and destructive lightning storms are all meant to prove the scientists' point about the deadly effects of global warming. The environmentalists are the villains. The corporate shills who have been paid big bucks to debunk the global warming community are the good guys. According to Crichton, global warming is a myth.
In today's world of increasing corporate control of almost every facet of our public and private lives, Crichton's screed against the environmental movement should come as no great surprise.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
The very idea that Michael Crichton is a right winger is idiocy. The fact that in this case his devotion to real science coincides with the view of corporate America is simply does not mean that he is their paid shill.
Fact is that the reason the left is so rabid over the entire "Green" issue is that it is just another way to centralize government power and control over industry...
If they were TRULY worried about being "Green," they'd be fighting against China for their pollution, the Middle East over theirs, and much of the THird World because of their tremendous amounts of environmental damage and pollution...
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I read this earlier as not suprising it was the first one listed on google news headline for this book.
There's a much better review that isn't some trotskyites rant at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1422283,00.html
Truth hurts, doesn't it, environmental wackos?
One of the more entertaining novels I've read about environment wackos was Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". I'll have to keep a lookout at the library for Crichton's book.
It never ceases to amaze me how hysterical the Left becomes when confronted by the fact that there is any alternative whatsoever to their propaganda. Ad Hominem/name-calling is always the first weapon of choice.
[Mental note: Make a point of buying every Crichton book, seeing every movie.]
As long as the truth you are purporting is that although the climate is changing, for which there is ample evidence, humans are not the cause.
If you claim nothing is going on, it looks like your head is in the sand and you are as bad as the sky is falling people.
Popular culture is never ever used to advance leftist agenda's right??
You have some evidence that the Earth is warming?
Other than the increase in "heat islands" caused by urbanization there is simply no evidence that the Earth is warming. Again and again, studies come out proclaiming it is so, the media runs with the story, and then the study is promptly shown to be badly flawed.
Here is just one example:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_muller101504.asp
This http://www.epic.org/ place is a bunch of fools, that say, they are fools, no way to contact them, they are to scared to be contacted.........what a bunch of idiots.
I'm not sure what you are talking about or how it ties in with this thread.
And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. That's not a good future for the human race. That's our past. So it's time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.
That's about the most cogent statement I've read about environmentalism.
They babble their nonsense as they hit their knees in awe of Arafat, Saddam, Castro, etc etc. Now Aarafat is dead and has declared himself Superior to God and,,,,where'd dat M effing earthquake come from?
LOL, I'm just finishing reading the novel, a reluctant Christmas gift from my left leaning mom. Chrichton should tack this guys column on as addendum, it just goes to show that reality global warmers are living in requires much more suspension of disbelief that your average sci-fi novel.
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