# Tasks

## Week 1-3 (end: Fri 1 May)

- [x] Exploratory reading
- [x] Re-draft the dissertation argument and structure
- [x] Re-draft the project plan

## Week 4 (end: Fri 8 May)

- [ ] Gather a list of 'core apocalyptic forms'
- [ ] Gather examples of green rhetoric using 'core apocalyptic forms'
- [ ] 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
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric obstructs appropriate
      responses to ongoing green harms
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric blames the wrong people,
      i.e. evidence that major green harms are not fairly blamed on the
      behaviour of ordinary people
- [ ] Gather evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric justifies violence and
      authoritarianism

## Week 5 (end: Fri 15 May)

- [ ] Gather evidence that St John's rhetorical strategy is to exhort his
      audience to a martyrdom ethic through an immanent catastrophe
- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the 'core apocalyptic forms'
- [ ] Gather examples of St John using the particular apocalyptic features his
      rhetorical strategy requires
- [ ] Gather examples of ancient apocalypse using the features I think are
      under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric
- [ ] Gather examples of apocalyptic green rhetoric using martyrdom-apocalyptic
      features
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric banishes panic
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages local
      action
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric awakens the
      complacent
- [ ] Gather evidence that martyrdom-apocalyptic green rhetoric encourages
      resistance to dominant systems
- [ ] Gather evidence that green rhetoric can use the features I think are
      under-exploited by apocalyptic green rhetoric to make good things happen

## Week 6 (end: Fri 5 Jun)

- [ ] Draft chapter 2

## Week 7 (end: Fri 12 Jun)

- [ ] Draft chapter 3

## Week 8 (end: Fri 19 Jun)

- [ ] Draft introduction

## Week 9 (end: Fri 26 Jun)

- [ ] Draft summary

## Week 10 (end: Fri 3 Jul)

- [ ] Re-draft chapter 2

## Week 11 (end: Fri 23 Jul)

- [ ] Re-draft chapter 3

## Week 12 (end: Fri 30 Jul)

- [ ] Re-draft introduction and conclusion

## Bonus

- [ ] Gather a list of shared forms between nuclear rhetoric and green rhetoric
- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic nuclear rhetoric
- [ ] Gather examples of catastrophic green rhetoric demonstrating the close
      link with nuclear rhetoric, many of which should be from the same time
      period as the peak of nuclear catastrophe rhetoric
- [ ] Incorporate into the dissertation an argument that catastrophic green
      rhetoric has a strong genetic relationship with nuclear rhetoric