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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index 7f6c82b..6eea22e 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -74,20 +74,18 @@ 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 Apocalypse of John has a great deal in common with the concept -of a geological catastrophe. Cosmos-scale world-changing events destroy much of -the existing world order and its life-sustaining powers: the heavens are -rolled up like a scroll, the sun and moon are darkened, water turns to blood, -fire rains down from above. In its place, a new world order is established, -supporting different forms of life. Al Gore, in his influential global -warming campaign film, _An Inconvenient Truth_, was (and remains) typical in the -way he describes the consequences of certain floods and wildfires as 'like a -nature hike through the Book of Revelations' [@inconvenient-truth]. In the next -chapter, I will argue that reducing apocalypse to mere catastrophe misses out -important features of apocalyptic language as exemplified by John, but for -now it is worth noting that some rhetors use allusions to the Apocalypse in order -to function as a catastrophic symbol. +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 +events destroy the planet's existing life-supporting systems, and institute new +ones in their place. Al Gore, in his influential global warming campaign film, +_An Inconvenient Truth_, was (and remains) typical in the way he describes the +consequences of certain floods and wildfires as 'like a nature hike through the +Book of Revelations' [@inconvenient-truth]. In the next chapter, I will argue +that reducing apocalypse to mere catastrophe misses out important features of +apocalyptic language as exemplified by John, but for now it is worth noting that +some rhetors use allusions to the Apocalypse in order to function as a +catastrophic symbol. It has been claimed green catastrophism is fatalistic: that the catastrophe is implicitly inevitable, and therefore no solution a rhetor might propose can ever |