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diff --git a/chapter2.md b/chapter2.md index 8177adc..4824163 100644 --- a/chapter2.md +++ b/chapter2.md @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ facing with courage her grief and her own inevitable death. Even a talented writer such as Foster, intentionally seeking to break new imaginative ground for conceptualising green crises, seems unable to escape the motif of catastrophe. -This has led many people to think that this catastrophism is the root cause of -the problem. Some have even labelled this trope 'apocalypticism' and thus blamed -the apocalyptic imagination, accusing apocalypse as being life-denying, -pessimistic, quietist, destructive, and hopeless. They point out that while -catastrophic narratives often place the catastrophe in a sudden event in the -near future, green issues such as climate change are often gradual, continuous -events which have already started. +Famously, the Apocalypse of St John prominently features cataclysmic events, +beginning with the opening of the first of the seven seals in chapter 6, +unleashing the notorious 'Four Horsemen.' Catastrophe can be considered an +apocalyptic literary feature. \[NEEDS MORE WORK\] + +Recently, academics examining green rhetoric have raised concerns with this +catastrophism. In fact, the Apocalypse of St John is very different from catastrophism. |