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The world without us
Do you wonder what would happen if people disappeared from our globe overnight? How long would there be traces of humans left on our Earth? How quickly would the infrastructure we have built collapse? How long would buildings, subways and cities last without our care? Sights and art? What would last the longest, and what would fall first? Which animals would benefit from our disappearance, and which would disappear with us? It is assumed, for example, that cockroaches would naturally become extinct along with us, but birds would be much better off and evolve into many new species. How would farms, fields, national parks and gardens fare? Bronze statues, plastic, and radio waves would have the longest lifespan on Earth without us. At the same time, some areas on Earth that have been destroyed and then abandoned by man (e.g. Chernobyl), it is evident that nature has self-healing powers. Alan Weisman, award-winning American journalist, based his hypotheses on the expertise of engineers, art conservators, climatologists, zoologists, biologists, astrophysicists, paleontologists and other experts and wrote a book, which takes a unique look at the impact of humans on the environment. < br> < br> Time magazine's book of the year, a New York Times bestseller and one of the boldest thought experiments.
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