State of Fear Journal #3

State of Fear was written with an extreme left winged approach. The author, Micheal Crighton, used scare tactics to send a message to his readers and the public about global warming. Our world is threatened by many things including war, tyranny and self-destruction. Crighton made sure to eliminate global warming from our list of worries by downplaying the problem and pointing the finger at corrupted leaders and politicians who use global warming as a source of revenue. The main character, Evans, travels the world in attempts to stop the actions of an activist group, ELF, and their ruthless leader, Drake, as they plot "natural" disasters to scare the public. ELF, which I believe represents the leaders of our nation, take generous donations in order to ease an imminent "threat" to mankind without scientific backing. After one of the largest donors, Morton, discovers the corruption of Drake and ELF, he withdraws his donation and asks Evans to prevent the death of thousands by stopping ELF from creating disasters around the world to boost their funding.