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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 13:06:24 +0100
committerJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 13:06:24 +0100
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@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ and soils in many places, and sudden collapses of existing glaciers followed by
extremely cold weather which 'might initiate another ice age'
[@nuclear-disaster, p. 136].
-Whether or not green rhetors explicitly use the word 'catastrophe,' they often
-imply a catastrophic model of the problems they present. When Extinction
-Rebellion took to the streets of the UK in 2018, this was their message:
+When the green movement switched from a nuclear master frame to one focused on
+climate change, the catastrophic language persisted. Whether or not green
+rhetors explicitly use the word 'catastrophe,' they often imply a catastrophic
+model of the problems they present. When Extinction Rebellion took to the
+streets of the UK in 2018, this was their message:
> The science is clear – we are in the sixth mass extinction event and we will
> face catastrophe if we do not act swiftly and robustly. [@xr-declaration]