chp2: half-finished thoughts about apocalypse vs catastrophe

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@@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ facing with courage her grief and her own inevitable death. Even a talented
 writer such as Foster, intentionally seeking to break new imaginative ground for
 conceptualising green crises, seems unable to escape the motif of catastrophe.
 
-This has led many people to think that this catastrophism is the root cause of
-the problem. Some have even labelled this trope 'apocalypticism' and thus blamed
-the apocalyptic imagination, accusing apocalypse as being life-denying,
-pessimistic, quietist, destructive, and hopeless. They point out that while
-catastrophic narratives often place the catastrophe in a sudden event in the
-near future, green issues such as climate change are often gradual, continuous
-events which have already started.
+Famously, the Apocalypse of St John prominently features cataclysmic events,
+beginning with the opening of the first of the seven seals in chapter 6,
+unleashing the notorious 'Four Horsemen.' Catastrophe can be considered an
+apocalyptic literary feature. \[NEEDS MORE WORK\]
+
+Recently, academics examining green rhetoric have raised concerns with this
+catastrophism.
 
 In fact, the Apocalypse of St John is very different from catastrophism.