In the guise of religion these views have lost respectability. Two thousand years of antiscience rhetoric, in large part, has been abandoned by the church. But the slogans and the ideology of the Dark Ages haven't disappeared. Instead they has been adopted by the radical Greens. This similarity between Left-environmentalism and theology is not accidental.
Similar premises lead to similar conclusions.
Both have nothing but disdain for man's mind. Both mistrust knowledge and oppose scientific discovery. Both yearn for a return to a primitive, unchanging world where dynamism has been banned. There is here a distinctly Calvinist flavor. Given such qualities, it should perhaps not be surprising that in Europe environmentalism has been strongest in Germany, Scandinavia, and England.