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A penetrating page turning tour of a post human EarthIn The World Without Us Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to uestions of humanity's impact on the planet he asks us to envision our Earth without us In this far reaching narrative Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock why some of our earliest buildings might be The World PDF or the last architecture left and how plastic bronze sculpture radio waves and some man made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe T. the world without us would be a better place well not for the dogs they'd die out pretty uickly and since dogs are the greatest things on the planet it gives one pause but no the badness of all the bad shit we've done outweighs even the goodness of the dogs the kanamits aren't gonna 'serve us' anytime soon a virus probably couldn't take everyone out war certainly won't so here are two options1 we simply stop procreating and peacefully die off leaving behind a near not total remember the dog situation paradise wwwvhemtorg2 we commit to the 'four pillars' of the church of euthanasia suicide abortion cannibalism sodomy are some of my favorite people on the planet 1 i'm pro abortion2 i'm vegetarian but could be convinced to eat a human way before a sweet gentle cow or pig 3 i'm pro sodomy 4 i don't really wanna kill myself but i have no problem if you want to in fact you should everyone should kill themselves except for me and rosario dawson we'd live out our lives with each other and the dogs it'd be me rosario and five millions dogs traveling the globe swimming in lakes climbing trees rolling around on grassy fields at night the dogs would ball up together and create the world's largest and warmest mattress for me my girl and then after a few decades we'd all run indian chasing bison style off a cliff finis
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The World Without UsHe World Without Us reveals how just days after humans disappear floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations and how as the world's cities crumble asphalt jungles would give way to real ones It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild how billions birds would flourish and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us Drawing on the expertise of engineers atmospheric scientists art conservators zoologists oil refiners marine biologists astrophysicists religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama and paleontologists who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stoo. This is a worldwide documentary book in the fashion of Jacues Cousteau or recently a few BBC programs The inciting uestion is a bit strange what would happen should the whole of the human race suddenly vanish from the face of the Earth Of course even if entire populations could be decimated by war or natural catastrophes an utter extinction of the human race is a highly improbable event Yet this odd hypothesis is a way of exploring how much humanity’s footprint has changed and is still changing this planet and reflect on the possible legacy of our current global civilisationWeisman a journalist and nonfiction writer investigates different aspects of this uestion He starts off pointing out how much human beings since they left their African cradle have changed their environment One illustration being the mass animal extinctions due to human development that have already taken place since prehistorical times eg the giant proboscideans of the Holocene These extinctions have been going on presumably at an ever increasing pace up to the present time But if human beings disappeared what would happen in the immediate aftermath or in the farthest future What would become of our houses our sometimes massive megalopolis What would become of the unfathomable amount of waste mainly plastic waste that we are continually dumping into the soil and the ocean What would become of our highly hazardous petrochemical and nuclear facilities What would become of our most significant achievements to transform the environment What would become of the climate of our planet that despite the outrageous and deceitful denial of some politicians in recent times we are contributing to change in radical ways What will become of our intellectual and artistic legacyWeisman has travelled the world to find some answers from New York to the Panama Canal from Korea to Cyprus and from Houston to the atolls of the Pacific Ocean and overall his research is well documented albeit easy to read What I take away from this book is that should we suddenly depart we would leave the Earth in a pretty disastrous state But in time perhaps a very long time possibly millions of years wild nature would wipe away almost all memory of our presence on this planet The hitch is that for now we are still around and and so what calamity we might well leave behind will sadly be for our descendants to live or die with and hopefully mend It seems Weisman's recent book advocates some form of demographic decline as a solution to this massive issue