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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index 3e4dbdf..697966e 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -1,17 +1,5 @@ ## Chapter 2 -Thesis: anti-apocalyptic criticism of R mis-diagnoses the problem. - -6. The effect on R's audience now is a spiralling cycle of despair -7. This has led some critics to blame apocalypticism for the failure of R -8. This is a traditional criticism of apocalypticism 'from above' -9. Apocalypse 'from below' has often worked very differently -10. This difference is due to the different interests of the readers -- a - difference which does not apply in the case of green crises -11. In fact, apocalypse can meet the critic's concerns in principle -12. (In order to do so in practice, those with power need to attack the - structures which drive the downward spiral) - Catastrophe is a prominent literary feature of contemporary green rhetoric. The word 'catastrophe' first entered English through early modern translations of Greek plays, meaning the denouement of a plot. Through association with |