This article examines a set of contemporary anime films that use the apocalyptic trope to critique the hubris of human development and its effect on the natural world. Faced with selfextinction, the protagonists of these films are forced, as we are today, to contemplate how their traditional views of nature have brought them to this particular precipice. The article argues that we must move beyond the unsustainable ideology of resourcism, and critically reassess many of the spatial metaphors, constrictive binaries, and false hierarchies that have contributed to the current struggle between the built environment and nature.