Like medieval Catholicism, the green faith foresees impending doom caused by human activity. To people in the Middle Ages, wrote Barbara Tuchman, "apocalypse was in the air." The Final Judgement, brought on by human sin, was not only real but imminent. St. Norbert in the twelfth century predicted the event would come within the lifetime of his contemporaries. Similarly, the environmental movement—whether religious, scientific, or leftist—routinely traces a direct line from human materialism to looming catastrophe.
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