Chapter 24 of Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet explores the Great Acceleration of the “global petroleumscape,” and the immensity of the human waste we generate in a distended Urban Planet fueled by hydrocarbon. It surveys spaces of mineral extraction of all kinds before following the growth of the post-World War II petroleumscape and its many drastic effects on global geopolitics, the priorities of capitalists, and the wasteful shape of Cities of Hydrocarbon. From there, we visit the waste streams of Earthopolis, following them from their disgorgement in factories and spaces of consumption across the continents, down the rivers, across the oceans, and into the atmosphere as a whole.