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@@ -11,46 +11,15 @@ - [x] Draft chapter 1 - [x] Draft introduction -Thesis: contemporary green rhetoric is a failure because it mis-diagnoses the -root causes of the problems, fails to identify credible routes to credible -solutions, and fails to identify an appropriate audience. - -1. Contemporary green rhetoric (R) is a failure -2. R mis-diagnoses the problem -3. R fails to identify credible routes to credible solutions -4. R fails to identify an audience that can be persuaded to make a difference -5. The material results of R have been dismal - ## Week 7-8 (end: Fri 19 Jun) - [x] Draft chapter 2 -Thesis: anti-apocalyptic criticism of R mis-diagnoses the problem. - -6. The effect on R's audience now is a spiralling cycle of despair -7. This has led some critics to blame apocalypticism for the failure of R -8. This is a traditional criticism of apocalypticism 'from above' -9. Apocalypse 'from below' has often worked very differently -10. This difference is due to the different interests of the readers -- a - difference which does not apply in the case of green crises -11. In fact, apocalypse can meet the critic's concerns in principle -12. (In order to do so in practice, those with power need to attack the - structures which drive the downward spiral) - ## Week 9-10 (end: Fri 3 Jul) - [x] Draft chapter 3 - [x] Draft conclusion -Thesis: green rhetors need to use apocalyptic rhetoric in order to motivate -their PMC audiences to a martyrdom ethic. - -13. John's rhetoric exhorts his audience to a martyrdom ethic -14. R needs to exhort their audiences to a martyrdom ethic -15. Socialist rhetoric in the past has used apocalypticism for this very purpose -16. Once rhetors addressing the PMC have fixed all the other problems with R, - they'll need this apocalyptic hope, too - ## Week 11 (end: Fri 23 Jul) - [ ] Start re-drafting |