6/3/2023 0 Comments Michael crichton climate book![]() I read a bunch of Crichton’s later novels too, like Prey and Next, and his worldview became slowly clearer to me. I absolutely didn’t get that Crichton was coming at the issue from a ‘scientists are very, very bad’ angle. ![]() Of course, I loved the movie and I’d been into dinosaurs from much younger. The catastrophic and thrilling scientific power depicted in Crichton’s obscenely popular book was partly what inspired me to follow science as a career and an obsession when I was younger. I remember my English teacher in early high school very gently suggesting that maybe someone my age should be reading something else perhaps something more meaningful to teenage life. I read that thing a lot, initially not understanding much but completely thrilled each time I did. My copy of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park from when I was a kid got so tattered the cover fell off. ![]() Michael Crichton’s legacy (of being shit) I’ll get to the film that just sprung into your mind a little later, but first, I want to talk to you about the guy who wrote Jurassic Park. It really just seems like there isn’t a whole lot out there. Unfortunately, I’m very rarely met with a hearty meal. Hungry, of course, for great representations of climate in movie-films! I think there needs to be really rich, engaging and accessible climate storytelling in film, and that most importantly it has to respect and reflect the reality of the fight. ![]()
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