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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 13:04:06 +0100
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This begs the question: if green rhetoric is failing, how might it be fixed? One
common suggestion is that green rhetoric needs to be less catastrophic. Since
-apocalyptic language is often assumed to be more or less equivalent to
-catastrophic language, it is easy for commentators such as Frances Flannery to
+apocalyptic language is often reduced to a catastrophic symbol, it is easy to
infer that successful green rhetoric should avoid apocalyptic language. In
chapter 3, I'll argue that such a conclusion ignores the possibilities of
apocalyptic language, including, and going well beyond, its catastrophic