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+# Tasks
+
+## Week 1-3
+
+- [x] Exploratory reading
+- [x] Re-draft the dissertation argument and structure
+- [x] Re-draft the project plan
+
+## Week 4
+
+- [ ] Gather a list of 'core apocalyptic forms'
+- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric using 'core apocalyptic forms'
+- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final
+- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or
+      assumed to have power over the problem
+- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric causes alienation
+- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric obstructs appropriate
+      responses to ongoing green harms
+- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric blames the wrong people,
+      i.e. evidence that major green harms are not fairly blamed on the
+      behaviour of ordinary people
+- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric justifies violence and
+      authoritarianism
+
+## Week 5
+
+- [ ] Gather evidence that St John's rhetorical strategy is to exhort his audience to a martyrdom ethic through an immanent catastrophe
+- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the 'core apocalyptic forms'
+- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the particular apocalyptic features his
+      rhetorical strategy requires
+- [ ] Gather examples of ancient apocalypse using the features I think are
+      under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric
+- [ ] Gather examples of apocalyptic green rhetoric using martyrdom-apocalyptic
+      features
+- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric banishes panic
+- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages
+      local action
+- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric awakens the
+      complacent
+- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages
+      resistance to dominant systems
+- [ ] Gather evidence that green rhetoric can use the features I think are
+      under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric to make good things happen
+
+## Week 6
+
+- [ ] Draft chapter 2
+
+## Week 7
+
+- [ ] Draft chapter 3
+
+## Week 8
+
+- [ ] Draft introduction
+
+## Week 9
+
+- [ ] Draft summary
+
+## Week 10
+
+- [ ] Re-draft chapter 2
+
+## Week 11
+
+- [ ] Re-draft chapter 3
+
+## Week 12
+
+- [ ] Re-draft introduction and conclusion
+
+## Bonus
+
+- [ ] Gather a list of shared forms between nuclear rhetoric and green rhetoric
+- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic nuclear rhetoric
+- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic green rhetoric demonstrating the close
+      link with nuclear rhetoric, many of which should be from the same time
+      period as the peak of nuclear catastrophe rhetoric
+- [ ] Incorporate into the dissertation an argument that catastrophic green
+      rhetoric has a strong genetic relationship with nuclear rhetoric