chp1: find green soul-searcher

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bibliography.bib b/bibliography.bib
index 987f2a1..69e7cf3 100644
--- a/bibliography.bib
+++ b/bibliography.bib
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+@article{stetler-2025,
+    title={Why Environmentalists Are Still Losing},
+    author={Stetler, Harrison},
+    date={2025-03-03},
+    journal={Jacobin},
+    url={https://jacobin.com/2025/03/environmentalism-climate-activism-ngos-policy},
+    urldate={2026-07-31},
+}
+
 @article{blaser-2018,
     title={On the properly political (disposition for the) Anthropocene},
     author={Blaser, Mario},
diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md
index a386a75..d15d01d 100644
--- a/chapter1.md
+++ b/chapter1.md
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ the WWF's measure of wildlife populations, has declined by almost three quarters
 since 1970 [@living-planet].
 
 All these failures beg the question: why aren't the green movement's strategies
-working? \[EXAMPLE OF GREEN LEADER ASKING THIS QUESTION\] In particular, I want
-to focus on green rhetoric.
+working? 'Has public attention gone numb?' asks journalist Harrison Stetler. 'Is
+the sense of crisis faced with the devastating effects of climate change feeding
+passivity — or even the rush to preserve past privileges — rather than
+mobilization?' [@stetler-2025] In particular, I want to focus on the movement's
+rhetoric.
 
 Rhetoric, as I'm using the term, refers to an utterance with an agenda. When
 green rhetoric works well, it solves a problem relevant to green concerns. In
@@ -562,4 +565,3 @@ catastrophic language is counter-productive in this context.
 ## TODO
 
 - Find quotes and page numbers in @{back-to-nature} and @{heat}
-- Find an example: green rhetor doing some soul-searching