At World's End

At World’s End: 13 More Post-Apocalyptic Visions, another post from WebUrbanist.
Our small blue planet – and everything on it – is destined to be fried to a crisp by an expanding sun some 5 billion years hence. Will anyone be around to observe the final sunset, or will society and civilization be snuffed out long before? Here are 13 more visions of what a post-apocalyptic world might be like.
I've chosen just a few of the 13, which have some significance to me.

Mad To The Max

From Australia it came, and things would never be the same. Mad Max, released in 1979, was the inspiration of many post-apocalyptic films to come. I was at one of the Mad Max locations at the Mundi Mundi Plains just a few weeks ago.

Apocalypso music
An early sci-fi blockbuster is The War Of The Worlds in which invaders from Mars nearly triumph over humanity, only to be defeated by humble bacteria. One of the best treatments of Wells’ masterpiece is Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, issued as a double LP record in 1978 accompanied by bleak artwork by Peter Goodfellow, Geoff Taylor and Michael Trim. I've the LP version and just organised to have it digitised the day before yesterday - will still keep the LP and artwork though.

Silent Spring In Siberia
Some say the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper… a slow slump into decay and decomposition. Witness the process in action by visiting the abandoned Russian city of Kadykchan. A Siberian tin-mining town that boasted a population of 5,794 as recently as 1989, Kadykchan has less than 300 inhabitants today.
This view of Kadykchan in its prime, taken from – seriously – the city’s official website.

 Panic in Detroit

It’s not only in Russia that parts of our modern world are slipping away into chaos and catastrophe – it’s happening in the city I've covered a number of times Detroit, Michigan building the American dream.