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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 13:47:23 +0100
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@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ This is where green rhetoric stands today. In recent decades, many of the most
important political demands of the green movement have not been realised.
Green rhetoric is not delivering change.
-In the chapters which follow, I will first explore why it might be that green
-rhetoric is failing to deliver political change, before exploring in more detail
-one particular allegation: green rhetoric is too catastrophic, or, in the terms
+In the chapters which follow, I will first explore how green rhetors often get
+the fundamentals of successful rhetoric wrong, before exploring in more detail
+one proposed explanation for this: green rhetoric is too catastrophic, or, in the terms
of some critics, 'apocalyptic.' In contrast, I will argue not only that green
rhetors must continue to use catastrophic language, but they must also draw
deeper on other aspects of apocalyptic language as modelled by John of the