From 48f937a3ea42a728bc315b4e53b8c3f19d9ca994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:54:07 +0100 Subject: chp5: reword limits para --- chapter5.md | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter5.md b/chapter5.md index 26d28ba..86805b6 100644 --- a/chapter5.md +++ b/chapter5.md @@ -27,17 +27,14 @@ used apocalyptic language as an essential tool in the author's rhetorical strategy. In chapter 4, I went further, and argued that in order to succeed now, green rhetors must use similar apocalyptic rhetorical strategies. -My analysis has severe limits. As I explored in chapter 1, there are many -reasons why green rhetoric is too often failing at present, and there's no good -cause to think that any one solution will fix all. Nor have I made any attempt -to explain why the catastrophic dialectic criticised in chapter 2 is so -consistently reproduced in green rhetoric, nor have I provided a feasible means -of ensuring that green rhetors can and do adopt the apocalyptic strategies I -have proposed. In chapter 1, I warned that a great deal of contemporary green -rhetoric does not successfully identify a practical plan of action or the right -audience to carry it out: I am happy to confess my guilt in the same sin. I have -also not given nearly as much attention to people who hold millenialist -worldviews as I would have liked, and they deserve. +My analysis has severe limits. There's no good reason to believe that reviving +good apocalyptic language would solve all the problems facing green rhetors, nor +have I proposed any practical plan of action which could lead green rhetors to +change their literary style in the ways I prefer. I have also mostly assumed +that green rhetoric is only addressed to people who do not hold millenialist +worldviews, and this is of course untrue. Many people with a huge stake in green +issues, from the Appalachians to the Congo, hold millenialist worldviews. My +analysis is significantly weaker for having largely ignored these people. What I do claim, is that, contra the many critics of apocalypticism, and despite the fact that apocalypticism, like all good things, can and is twisted -- cgit v1.2.3