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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index 4badb3b..43cc7f8 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ 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 St John has a great deal in common with the concept +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, @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ 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 St John, but for +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. |