remove unhelpful relation between fatalism and Apocalypse in chp2

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@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ 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.
 
-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.
 
@@ -74,16 +69,6 @@ Paleontologists speculate about the causes of historic mass extinctions:
 volcanic eruptions, asteroid strikes, cyclical climate fluctuations gone rogue?
 One thing's for sure, there's nothing the dinosaurs could have done to stop it.
 
-'Apocalypse' is also a fatalistic concept. This fatalism is obvious whenever
-someone counts the days til doomsday. This begins with the prophet Daniel, who
-reports that 'seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and thy holy city, to
-finish the transgression' (Dan 9:24) and that 'from the time that the daily
-sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
-there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.' \[MORE DEMONSTRATION OF
-FATALIST MILLENIALISM\]
-
-\[EXAMPLE OF SCHOLAR SAYING THAT APOCALYPSE/CATASTROPHE IS FATALIST\]
-
 A fatalistic outlook may, at best, lead to what Kvandal & Levy call
 'ritualistic' behaviours: 'behaviours characterized by rigidity, compulsion, and
 goal demotion.' [@kvandal-2025] That is, people feel compelled to act in rigidly