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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 16:27:07 +0100
committerJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 16:27:07 +0100
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@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ This is, in John Collin's terms, an 'ethic for martyrdom.' So, could John's
apocalyptic rhetorical strategies be of use in motivating UK citizens to take
political actions to advance the causes of the green movement?
-First of all, catastrophism ought to be deployed in a way which exposes the
-evil of present systems and leaves open the possibility of resistance. Nicholas
-Beuret uses catastrophic language to expose the falsity, as he sees it, of
-'climate transition' rhetoric, and motivate his audience to 'disrupt' that
-transition:
+First of all, catastrophism ought to be deployed to expose the evil of present
+systems. As in the Apocalypse, the catastrophe must be politicised, critical,
+and leave open the possibility of resistance. Nicholas Beuret uses catastrophic
+language to expose the falsity, as he sees it, of 'climate transition' rhetoric,
+and motivate his audience to 'disrupt' that transition:
> The impacts \[of climate change\] will be terrible. Already at somewhere
> around 1.5°C the world is suffering an adaptability crisis, with some areas