From 0717308f86cd81e8c7475e2d958ba244ee21bd8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 14:22:07 +0100 Subject: examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final --- log.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ tasks.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/log.md b/log.md index 8bb6643..ae1ad96 100644 --- a/log.md +++ b/log.md @@ -6,6 +6,23 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 2026-05-05 +### 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. + ### Meeting with David de Pomerai I met David (for the first time properly, having only seen him at the diff --git a/tasks.md b/tasks.md index ef7cd11..eb9a234 100644 --- a/tasks.md +++ b/tasks.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ - [x] Gather a list of 'core apocalyptic forms' - [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric using 'core apocalyptic forms' -- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final +- [x] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the catastrophe is final - [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or assumed to have power over the problem - [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric causes alienation -- cgit v1.2.3