The dude wrote State of Fear, and these assholes are pretending turning one of his characters into a fanatical climate change activist is in keeping with his vision.
"Luckily, they were very open to those and in agreement, and it was very important to Colin, who cares deeply about the environment, and I think feels proud and grateful that we have a seamless opportunity in this franchise to talk about what's most important right now, in terms of protecting our home, Earth," Dern said. "It's embedded in this franchise. It's in the original book. So, it was a seamless conversation. But to me, how she'd evolved in her area of science that she had studied as a paleontologist, our former extinction, and would have evolved as a soil scientist whose focus would be climate change to avoid another extinction. Made perfect sense and he agreed completely. And she wouldn't not be an activist. It's Dr. Ellie Sattler, come on. And if boys want to join her and use their voice, they might have an amazing experience. But they better abandon dig sites and get with the program and start saving the world."
In Appendix I, Crichton warns "both sides" of the global warming debate against the politicization of science. Here he provides two examples of the disastrous combination of pseudoscience and politics: the early 20th-century ideas of eugenics (which he directly cites as one of the theories that allowed for the Holocaust) and Lysenkoism.
Meanwhile, these people "I hecking love Science™! This is totally in keeping with the original work!"
The dude wrote State of Fear, and these assholes are pretending turning one of his characters into a fanatical climate change activist is in keeping with his vision.
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Meanwhile, these people "I hecking love Science™! This is totally in keeping with the original work!"