Webcyclical stories of apocalypse are most often related to the mythology based origin tales of the culture, as the beginnings and ends of things are usually tied together.
Webthe end of the world is near—again!
For centuries, doomsdayers have prophesied the apocalypse.
But there's a tiny catch:
Webclimate apocalypse, by contrast, is messy.
It will take the form of increasingly severe crises compounding chaotically until civilization begins to fray.
Webwhen evil is flourishing it's very bad indeed.
And what you get in apocalypse is a vision of the suffering that people go through before the happy resolution.
Webapocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.
This belief is usually accompanied by the idea that civilization will soon.