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| author | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-08-04 13:47:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net> | 2026-08-04 13:47:23 +0100 |
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diff --git a/chapter5.md b/chapter5.md index cae25a4..26d28ba 100644 --- a/chapter5.md +++ b/chapter5.md @@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ doesn't match the interests and powers of their real audiences, namely, the Western middle classes. As a result, they end up proposing solutions that aren't feasible. -How could green rhetors be more effective? One common suggestion, explored in +Why are green rhetors failing on the fundamentals? One common suggestion, explored in chapter 2, is that green rhetors should avoid the motif of catastrophe, or, in a certain sense, 'apocalypse.' Catastrophic rhetoric has been accused of creating -resignation, despair, apathy, and dismissal, and of killing genuine politics. +resignation, despair, apathy, and dismissal, and of killing genuine politics, +driving the fundamental problems discussed in chapter 1. This line of thought, together with the fact that 'apocalypse' is treated as a catastrophic symbol in popular culture, leads Frances Flannery to suggest that green rhetors should avoid evoking apocalyptic associations. |
