The Ecological Jeremiad, the American Myth, and the Vivid Force of Color in Dr. Seuss'sThe Lorax

The Flood Myth in the Age of Global Climate Change

“…Apocalyptic narratives and the jeremiad are well established in rhetorical and environmental studies (Brummett, 1984;Carpenter, 1978;Johannesen, 1985;Killingsworth & Palmer, 1996;Murphy, 1990;Opie & Elliot, 1996;Ritter, 1980;Wolfe, 2008). Apocalyptic rhetoric centers on the idea of a looming catastrophe that threatens all humankind.…”

“…A prominent area of focus for such research explores myths in popular discourse and media (Osborn, 1967(Osborn, , 1977Ritter, 1980;Wolfe, 2008). Numerous writers have highlighted the significant role of mythic form in environmental discourse, particularly the apocalyptic and jeremiad archetypes.…”

The Toxic Screen: Visions of Petrochemical America in HBO'sTrue Detective(2014)

“…A majority of scholarship on representations of ecological destruction focuses on either explicitly proenvironmental films (Hammond & Breton, ; Mellor, ; Rosteck & Frentz, ; Salvador & Norton, ; Von Burg, ) or still images in news reporting, advertising, photographs, and children's fiction (Corbett, ; Dobrin & Morey, ; Slawter, ; Wolfe, ). But, one reason to attend to the toxic screen is that television has been recently flooded with toxic images of pollution and economic maldevelopment.…”

How to save the world : the ideologies of four ENGOs and their discursive constructions of climate change

“…In my analysis, I also made use of the following tropes commonly found in environmental discourses: 'the apocalypse', 'the ecological jeremiad', 'environmental melodrama', 'lamenting Eden', and 'celebrating jubilee (Cox, 2013;Hulme, 2009;Wolfe, 2008).…”

“…The metaphor of Earth reaching a tipping point and the use o f alarmist rhetoric provide a sense of urgency in the texts. The rhetorical trope of the 'ecological jeremiad' (Wolfe, 2008) is intended to remind the social actors, Christians, of their biblical covenant to care for creation, while the rhetorical use of'celebrating jubilee' (Hulme, 2009) establishes solutions to climate change as a means for creating social justice and honouring God.…”