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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index 1c64240..5854d97 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -409,8 +409,7 @@ interests for such exhortations to be feasible. This begs the question: if green rhetoric is failing, how might it be fixed? One common suggestion is that green rhetoric needs to be less catastrophic. Since -apocalyptic language is often assumed to be more or less equivalent to -catastrophic language, it is easy for commentators such as Frances Flannery to +apocalyptic language is often reduced to a catastrophic symbol, it is easy to infer that successful green rhetoric should avoid apocalyptic language. In chapter 3, I'll argue that such a conclusion ignores the possibilities of apocalyptic language, including, and going well beyond, its catastrophic |