Specification Jungle
what is state of fear about?
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing
a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. Why did he die and how?
In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer
purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to
his specifications. Why?
In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased
for use in the waters off New Guinea. Why?
And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to
understand what it all means. Why/
All quotes from the book. BEWARE SPOILERS!
“social control is best managed through fear.”
“Western nations had maintained their citizens in a state of perpetual fear. Fear of the other side. Fear of nuclear war. The Communist menace. The Iron Curtain. The Evil Empire.”
“in the fall of 1989, it was all finished. Gone, vanished. Over. The fall of the Berlin Wall created a vacuum of
fear. Nature abhors a vacuum. Something had to fill it.”
“What if I told u that environmental crisis took its place? The hue and cry about global warming, el nino or la nina ?”
“modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can’t even see—germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them.”
“How has this world view been instilled in everybody? Because although we imagine we live in different nations—France, Germany, Japan, the US—in fact, we inhabit exactly the same state, the State of Fear.”
It’s a very good book. They planned to cause climate related catastrophes. The physicist was working on tsunami models and the beautiful woman wanted to know where and how much seismic energy it would take to wipe out an area, The cavitation machines were to cause the tsunami. The sub was to position the cavitation machines near the Solomon islands to cause a earthquake and create a tsunami big enough to take out the west coast of America at the same time environmentalist were having a conference.