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@@ -6,6 +6,23 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 2026-05-05 +### Examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final + +Like, all of them. + +Obvious examples include @{xr-declaration}, @{no-one-is-too-small}, +@{greenpeace-report}. If we don't stop emitting CO2, everyone will die and/or +civilization will collapse. + +@{inconvenient-truth} didn't quite have that narrative, but it did use Earthshot +and Pale Blue Dot very prominently, which I think was to communicate that what +is at stake is global, cosmic, total. + +In @{cry-of-the-wild}, the catastrophe is final for the orca, Eeschin. While we +don't see her die, we know that her whole clan has died off, and she will refuse +til death to join another clan: the only way it can end is death, and thus the +total extinction of her clan. + ### Meeting with David de Pomerai I met David (for the first time properly, having only seen him at the @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ - [x] Gather a list of 'core apocalyptic forms' - [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric using 'core apocalyptic forms' -- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final +- [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final - [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or assumed to have power over the problem - [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric causes alienation |