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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index 3944150..8c4c67b 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ One thing's for sure, there's nothing the dinosaurs could have done to stop it. Some apocalyptic movements and worldviews have also promoted fatalisms. One notable contemporary movement is the modern pre-millenialist movement in the -USA. Pre-millenialists believe in the 'Rapture,' based on an interpretation of +USA. Pre-millenialists believe in the 'Rapture,' based on an interpretation of Thess 4:17: 'then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with \[the dead in Christ\] in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.' @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ pre-millenialist outlook is inescapably fatalist. As a result, when the 'social gospel' movement took off in the late nineteenth century, some pre-millenialists condemned the movement for failing to trust God's plan to redeem the world in the end-times and trying to redeem the world by inferior -and vain human efforts instead [@unveiling-empire, p. 10]. Wes Howard-Brooke +and vain human efforts instead [@unveiling-empire, p. 10]. Wes Howard-Brooke and Anthony Gwyther have observed this contradictory situation: > \[…\] in the 1950s-1970s, pre-millenialists were also taking frequent aim at what @@ -245,3 +245,10 @@ disarming radical discourses in favour of business as usual, and deeping harmful In all these ways, catastrophic language in green rhetoric can work to actively de-motivate audiences to play their part in bringing about the green movement's 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 +- Rework conclusion of this chapter |