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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index adb458a..4989e32 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -20,7 +20,15 @@ divided by sudden cataclysmic events. [@oed-catastrophe] Anti-nuclear campaigners used the word 'catastrophe' to describe the effects of a nuclear war, echoing this model of geological time, suggesting that a nuclear war would have such severe, irreversible consequences that it would represent -the next great cataclysm in geological time \[EVIDENCE\]. +the next great cataclysm in geological time. In 1964, Tom Stonier wrote that +'even in a century marked by two "total" wars the totality of the catastrophe we +face in the threat of thermonuclear war is barely imaginable' +[@nuclear-disaster, p. 17], before going on to imagine just that, predicting not +only massive death from shockwaves, firestorms and fallout, but also stark +ecological imbalances leading to insect plagues, total destruction of plant life +and soils in many places, and sudden collapses of existing glaciers followed by +extremely cold weather which 'might initiate another ice age' +[@nuclear-disaster, p. 136]. Whether or not green rhetors explicitly use the word 'catastrophe,' they often imply a catastrophic model of the problems they present. When Extinction @@ -253,6 +261,5 @@ desired outcomes. ## TODO -- Explore and evidence: anti-nuclear rhetors echoed geological catastrophism - Find quotes & page numbers in @{cry-of-the-wild}, @{no-one-is-too-small} - Explore and evidence: death of politics idea |