Have you ever asked yourself, “how would the world react we were gone?” or “What if individuals no longer walked on the earth that we have impacted so much? What impact would we leave behind?” Although Alan Weisman admits that it is very unlikely that our species disappear”, he still talks about these questions in the book The World Without Us in order for us to more closely recognize our environmental impacts on earth. Weisman starts his book off with humans having vanished unexpectedly and completely. He goes on to talk about how without humans to maintain anything cities will slowly disappear by being eroded by water, flooding our subways and cracking roads, pavements, and even bridges. Tunnels would soon be flooded with water causing streets
