What would happen if all humans on Earth suddenly disappeared? What would that say about our current impact on the planet? These are the question Alan Weisman asked, and answered, in his new book T...
What would happen if all humans on Earth suddenly disappeared? What would that say about our current impact on the planet? These are the question Alan Weisman asked, and answered, in his new book The World without Us.
In the July 2007 issue of Scientific American, Steve Mirsky interviewed Weissman, and the result is a fascinating "what if" scenario that reveals just how quickly things would unravel without our constant attention.
Check out the video, below, that explains what would happen to New York in the absence of humans. If you'd like to explore the subject in depth, there's also an interactive timeline complete with audio commentary from Weisman.
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What would it be like? Watch 'The Quiet Earth'. For any individual survivors, it would be a nightmare. You'd go mad in a month. For the planet, it would be a well deserved rest from centuries of wanton destruction and ill-treatment by the worst species on the Earth, the only one to practise evil, the so-called 'enlightened' human race. (And don't come back with 'oh, whales and monkeys can be evil' - I haven't seen a chimp poison a river or kill for fun lately, have you? :))
nature is more powerfull then people, but if we change our way of living we become part of nature : work less, think more, act with soul. Stop with individual self-realisation and act as part of the universe.
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