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-bibliography: bibliography.bib
-title: Dissertation scratchbook
-author: Joe Carstairs
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-
-## Examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or assumed to have power over the problem
-
-- @{back-to-nature} is a particularly egregious example
-- @{inconvenient-truth} must be a go-to. See the credits especially.
-- @{forget-me-not}, especially the Epilogue
-- @{greenpeace-report} is a particularly egregious example of the magic 'we'
-
-@{no-one-is-too-small}, @{xr-declaration}, and @{xr-not-a-drill} are good
-contrasts: it emphasises that the audience is not, at least not entirely,
-responsible.
-
-## Examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final
-
-Like, all of them.
-
-Obvious examples include @{xr-declaration}, @{no-one-is-too-small},
-@{greenpeace-report}. If we don't stop emitting CO2, everyone will die and/or
-civilization will collapse.
-
-@{inconvenient-truth} didn't quite have that narrative, but it did use Earthshot
-and Pale Blue Dot very prominently, which I think was to communicate that what
-is at stake is global, cosmic, total.
-
-In @{cry-of-the-wild}, the catastrophe is final for the orca, Eeschin. While we
-don't see her die, we know that her whole clan has died off, and she will refuse
-til death to join another clan: the only way it can end is death, and thus the
-total extinction of her clan.
-
-### Examples of green rhetoric using core apocalyptic forms
-
-The goal here is to persuade the reader that green rhetoric often uses literary
-techniques which are distinctive of the genre, apocalypse.
-
-Examples of the doomsday cluster of symbols includes almost every example of
-green rhetoric I've read so far:
-
-- @{silent-spring}
-- @{heat}
-- @{inconvenient-truth}
-- @{xr-declaration}
-- @{xr-not-a-drill}
-- @{no-one-is-too-small}
-- @{greenpeace-report}
-- @{back-to-nature}
-- @{forget-me-not}
-- @{cry-of-the-wild}
-- @{greenhouse-effect}
-
-Green rhetoric almost always talks about the world system, so engages in cosmic
-speculation by default. Almost all green rhetoric also imagines alternative
-worlds, particularly alternative futures, whether utopic or dystopic. Pretty
-much anything in the above list would include those symbols.
-
-Examples of nesting contexts:
-
-- @{greenhouse-effect}
-- Chp 7, @{losing-eden}
-- @{inconvenient-truth}
-- @{xr-declaration}
-- @{wilding}
-- @{losing-eden}
-
-The best examples of moral dualism:
-
-- @{no-one-is-too-small}
-- @{silent-spring}
-- @{xr-declaration}
-- @{back-to-nature}
-
-The best examples of eschatological symbols:
-
-- @{cry-of-the-wild}
-- @{xr-not-a-drill}
-- @{back-to-nature}
-- @{inconvenient-truth}
-
-For fatalism, see: @{xr-not-a-drill}, @{american-apocalyptic}.
-
-For mythological symbolism, see: @{cry-of-the-wild}, @{xr-not-a-drill},
-@{inconvenient-truth} (Revelation itself used as a mythological symbol!).
-
-For exhortations to remain faithful, see: @{xr-not-a-drill}, @{cry-of-the-wild},
-@{back-to-nature}, @{xr-declaration}, @{forget-me-not}.
-
-For minority/revealed knowledge, see @{heat}, @{xr-not-a-drill},
-@{silent-spring}. But be aware that the vast majority of green rhetoric uses
-'majority' scientific knowledge as its rule, and often loudly celebrates this
-fact.