Conclusions

My main conclusion is how The State of Fear creates a new understanding on the context of global warming and how the media create fear to capture an audience, the story helps to create a new understanding and knowledge of the represented primary world. The text helps the reader grasp the idea that global warming is only a theory and not a speculative truth, and that we truly do not completely understand whether global warming is occurring in the way that it has been speculated. The novel represents Los Angeles as being a segregated city with gated communities, security surveillance, periphery cities which creates a de-centralised city making the car the dominant mode of transport.

The story also uses different cultures and the interaction of people in different spaces and places through static representations and kinetic description with the use of senses and movement through temporal space. The geographies of different spaces and places have been truly represented within the novel from the real world, and the author suggests that we know very little about the world that we live in and the natural environment which are a part of. The novel also expresses the power of media and the government as a form of social control, by promoting fear and how NGOs such as environmental groups use fear as a means to promote policies and to stimulate funding.