It was an interesting reading about what would happen if humankind should suddenly vanish. I enjoy the non-fiction account but I was hoping for something akin to the series that were being broadcasting by the History Channel
Weisman's enjoyable and hard-to classify thought experiment takes as its starting point the question, what would happen to the world if all humans were to disappear suddenly, simultaneously, and not cataclysmically? Weisman attempts to answer this from many perspectives in relation to architecture, ...
10/2013Rereading this book because it is pretty much all I ever think about01/2008Stunning. I thought this book was going to be a depressing accounting of all the ways humans have screwed up the Earth eternally, but it wasn't at all. It was actually really hopeful and uplifting and amazing. Yes, our...
What would happen if every human just disappeared from the earth tomorrow? Weisman investigates and reports on this thought experiment. Engagingly written.
I began this book, a careful extrapolation of what might happen to the world if humanity up and disappeared, about three weeks ago. I enjoyed it, for many reasons delineated in the positive reviews below and in raves in various press outlets. But a hundred pages in, I got caught up in other things...
Book Description (from Amazon.com)A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman ex...
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