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 and likewise adopted a minority epistemology -- an eschatological vision -- in
 order to convince his audience that the good fight was worth fighting.
 
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+Many advocates of the Green New Deal concept show how eschatological speculation
+can work rhetorically even within strictly secular limits, including the
+self-branded eco-socialist scholar and activist, Max Ajl:
+
+> Imagine a world of cities with mottled yards full of chestnut, pecan, or
+> breadfruit trees, below them perennial raspberry bushes or the dusky crimson
+> and pale yellow of pomegranates, trellises wrapped in grapes and squash, and
+> lower, lifting out from healthy obsidian soil, a palette of landrace tomatoes
+> and peppers. Roofs are coated with patterned raised beds. Side-yards feature
+> fishponds, which receive all kinds of manure, fattening up their inhabitants.
+> Greenbelts surround all cities, as popular planning converts sprawling suburbs
+> into farmed swards. High-speed trains link bigger cities to smaller ones,
+> smaller ones to capillary lines leading to outlying hamlets kitted out with
+> high-speed internet. Ranchers manage grasslands roamed by a bouquet of native
+> breed animals that churn cellulosic matter into the soil, producing
+> negative-CO2 milk and meat. Intercalated forest-fields overproduce walnut,
+> fodder, and myriad maize and wheat varieties. In some places, the burgeoning
+> low-tech of perennial cereals inject root structures far deeper than people
+> are tall into prairies. There is a lot to do beyond farming: Skilled
+> technicians live in the countryside and smaller villages and estates, and
+> manage high-voltage smart grids, local renewable storage systems, and
+> decentralized windmills, while artisans and decentralized manufacturing
+> processes local agricultural materials, supplementing and replacing – where it
+> makes sense – large-scale mass-market industrial goods. [@ajl-gnd, p. 117]
+
+Ajl, as with many other Green New Deal activists, recognises that having and
+sharing the right utopian vision plays an essential role in bringing about
+transformative political change. While acknowledging that real political change
+involves defeats and compromises as well as victories, he lambasts
+social-democratic political programmes on the grounds that they give up the
+fight for a better world before the battle has even begun: 'if one is building a
+struggle that accepts a compromised horizon, one is not going to reach a further
+horizon' [@ajl-gnd, p. 95]. Or, as utopia scholar Lisa Garforth puts it:
+
+> The hopeful but shallow utopianism in popular environmentalism and global
+> policy-making can be compared with radical ecopolitical visions and similarly
+> unsettling postnatural philosophies. Where the former works around
+> modifications of and continuities with business as usual, the latter imagines
+> a break – in culture, politics and modes of subjectivity. [@green-utopias, p. 153]
 
 ### TODO
 
 - Cite page numbers / find quotations from _Silent Spring_
 - Find examples of green tribulation discourse
-- Find examples of green utopian end-time speculation
 - Read all about the Green New Deal and incorporate evidence
   - https://theconversation.com/the-green-new-deal-is-already-changing-the-terms-of-the-climate-action-debate-112144