From b6eb493ab0281b01b370935c038ab25d18e5448a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 17:17:17 +0100 Subject: introduction: add final signposting para --- chapter0.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/chapter0.md b/chapter0.md index ae77c62..e97fafc 100644 --- a/chapter0.md +++ b/chapter0.md @@ -71,4 +71,14 @@ professional middle-class Western political movement which emerged in the 1960s to protect 'nature' against the encroachment of 'civilisation', and which has now adopted climate change as a 'master frame' for its issues. -In this rest of this dissertation, I will \[TODO\] +In recent decades, many of the most important political demands of the green +movement have not been realised, and many scholars have supposed that green +rhetoric is not fulfilling its proper function of delivering change. In this +rest of this dissertation, I will first explore why it might be that green +rhetoric is failing to deliver political change, before exploring in more detail +one particular allegation: green rhetoric isn't working because it is too +apocalyptic. I will argue that this diagnosis is unhelpful and untrue. In +contrast, I will argue not only that green rhetors must continue to use +apocalyptic end-of-the-world language, but that they must draw deeper on other +aspects of apocalyptic language which have been heretofore neglected by green +rhetors, if they are to play their proper part in delivering political change. -- cgit v1.2.3