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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index 91441d5..8c62606 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -54,26 +54,6 @@ change: > control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know > it. [@no-one-is-too-small, p. 82] -Catastrophic models of ecological futures are so dominant, that it can be hard -to imagine any other kind of story. This is eloquently demonstrated by the -novelist, Charles Foster, who set himself the challenge to 'reignite' his -readers' imaginations: - -> I don't believe in climate change. \[…\] 'Yes, it's very bad. Yes, we're all -> going to die. Pass the salt, please. How's your homework going, Rachel?' \[…\] -> This exhaustion of our intellect, our compassion and our capacity for alarm -> is desperately dangerous. Only imagination can reignite them. And only story -> \[…\] can do the necessary imaginative job. We're dying for want of a story. -> [@cry-of-the-wild, pp. xi-xii] - -The result was _Cry of the Wild_, a short story collection. One of those stories -follows a fictional orca called Eeschin as she lives through the extinction of -her pod due to marine pollution. The denouement of the story sees Eeschin -swimming alone, the last of her clan, unable and unwilling to adopt a new clan, -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. - The word 'apocalypse' is sometimes used as if to stand for 'catastrophe.' Of course, the vision recounted in the Apocalypse of John has a great deal in common with the concept of a geological catastrophe. Cosmos-scale world-changing |