The World Without Us

The World Without Us

By Alan Weisman

Pages

416

Rating

3.81

Year

2007

NatureHistoryEcologyPost-ApocalypticScienceEnvironment

Description

If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures — our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments — survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention?

In his revelatory account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind's place on this planet.

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