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authorJoe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>2026-08-04 13:47:23 +0100
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@@ -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.