cut back on over-use of 'radical'

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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Among the numerous complaints commentators have expressed about catastrophic
 green rhetoric, I will examine three in particular. First, it is alleged that
 catastrophic language encourages a fatalistic outlook and therefore persuades
 audiences that no proposed solution can be credible. Second, catastrophe is
-supposed to promote business as usual and shut down radical discourses,
+supposed to promote business as usual and shut down critical discourses,
 preventing rhetors from proposing truly credible solutions. Third, critics argue
 that catastrophic thinking flattens out power relationships and thus contributes
 to the 'death of politics,' driving rhetors to use the universal 'we' instead of
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ For some rhetors, the urgency of the crisis means that
 established power structures must be supported to work at full throttle, and we
 certainly haven't got time to replace or transform them. But if, as
 many political analysts contend, green harms are an inevitable
-consequence of business as usual, then such narratives obstruct the radical
+consequence of business as usual, then such narratives obstruct the
 political critique needed to propose a truly credible solution to green
 issues. For example, the International Monetary Fund recently reported:
 
@@ -187,8 +187,8 @@ The IMF presumes that massive capital flows can only come from the private
 sector, ignoring the fact that many historical economic transformations have been
 driven by command-and-control. Tacitly, the IMF assumes that the neoliberal
 order, in which governments are held hostage by markets, is permanent and
-inevitable. The figure of climate catastrophe functions here to shut down
-radical imagination. This contributes to the tendency of green rhetors
+inevitable. The figure of climate catastrophe functions here to prevent audiences from
+imagining a different kind of society. This contributes to the tendency of green rhetors
 to propose incredible solutions, such as voluntary austerity, impossible global
 agreements, or 'smart' market fixes isolated from a sustainable political
 programme.