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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-03 14:34:23 +0100
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rhetoric is too often failing, and discussed the particular criticism of the use
of catastrophic language. In the previous chapter, I argued that these
criticisms of catastrophic language do not apply to the use of apocalyptic
language in the most important model of apocalyptic rhetoric in Western
-literature, namely, the Apocalypse of St John. Now, in this chapter, I aim to
+literature, namely, the Apocalypse of John. Now, in this chapter, I aim to
show that in order for green rhetoric to succeed, it should imitate the
apocalyptic rhetorical strategies of the Apocalypse discussed in the previous chapter.
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ have already examined one example from _The Future We Choose_
where this might all end, for good or ill. Even the Cold-War-inspired total
catastrophism is one perspective on the end times.
-St. John, like all biblical apocalypticists, affirms a utopian end-time. As I
+John, like all biblical apocalypticists, affirms a utopian end-time. As I
discussed in the previous chapter, this is important to his rhetorical goals.
There is no use pointing to a dystopia, or (perhaps worse still) concluding
that we can't really be certain what the ultimate future holds. Such
@@ -216,5 +216,5 @@ horizon' [@ajl-gnd, p. 95]. Or, as utopia scholar Lisa Garforth puts it:
> a break – in culture, politics and modes of subjectivity. [@green-utopias, p. 153]
In sum, minority cognition, tribulation discourse, and utopian end-time
-speculation as displayed in the Apocalypse of St John are essential apocalyptic
+speculation as displayed in the Apocalypse of John are essential apocalyptic
rhetorical strategies for today's green rhetors.