In To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century, Richard Weller, Professor Emeritus and Co-Founder of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania, has condensed a sprawling subject into a compact field guide to 120 of the most significant 21st century objects, from bulldozers to Biosphere II. Call it dystopian, call it optimistic. Just don’t call it “anthroporn.”


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Intro/Outro: “Until the End of the World,” by U2


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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, by Timothy Morton


Utopias (and Utopia’s Evil Twins)


                  Welwyn Garden City


                  Chandigarh


                  Burning Man


                  EPCOT


                  Pruitt-Igoe


                  Walmart
Supercenter


Machines:


Bulldozers + polymetric nodules


Fish farms


Solar arrays


Sand motor + littoral drift


Tree-planting drones


Monsters:


                  Geo-engineering


The World Park Project / UN Convention on Biological Diversity


Y2Y


Banff Wildlife Crossings Project


The Atlas for the End of the World