A Doomsday Prayer for the Polluting Ape
A found sonnet on the surface of the Earth, the full itinerary of this sonnet, which touches ground at 132 airports worldwide, is 988,714 mile-long and has an estimated carbon footprint of 12,548,229 kilograms of carbon dioxide. The applet below allows the reader to interact with the poem by clicking around. The photograph in the background is by Arturo Godoy.
If you click on any given line of the sonnet (title included), you will see information about its itinerary, its length, and its carbon footprint. If you click anywhere outside of the text, the display will show the sonnet as a sequence of IATA airport codes. Within this other display, clicking on a particular airport code produces information about the geolocation of the corresponding airport. Clicking outside of the text will always toggle between one display and the other.
The Complete Itinerary
