In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman attempts to answer the question of what would happen to Earth if humans were to completely disappear. To answer this question, he has created an image of what the world was like without human dominance and what has happened since human evolution and spread, and now what would happen to earth without us because of our impact on it. He interviews a lot of people with different profession. The book is also broken down into four parts, discussing what would happen to what man has altered in nature, including art, power plants, nukes, cities, bacteria, creatures of the ocean and farmland. The theories Weisman present are debatable. The book also depicts the spectacle of humanity’s impact on earth.
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He is trying to imagine how the world will survive without us to take care of it. He said that that we are stretching our resources too much. Weisman is saying that once we disappear, everything will go back to normal. An example is when he says that New York City will go back to the forest it was. He supports his argument by referring to other things that will not last. In general, he is saying that the earth would return to the way it was before human interruption. Some of our toughest creation would not last much more than a decade without humans. Example, “After just two days, with no one around to monitor and man the pumps, the New York City subways would flood”. Weisman indicates how underground water would annihilate city lanes, lightning would set blazes, dampness and creatures would turn calm zone suburbs into woodlands in 500 years and 441 atomic plants would overheat and smolder or melt. "Watch, and perhaps learn," composes the creator. A number of his lessons originate from past advancements, for example, the sudden vanishing of the Maya 1,600 years prior and the advancement of creatures and people in Africa. Extensions will fall, metros close blame lines in New York and San Francisco will collapse, glacial masses will wipe away a significant part of the fabricated world and foragers will clean our human bones inside a couple of months. Humans are able to take care of …show more content…
Throughout the book, he uses the future tense instead of condition, enforcing a feeling of grim inevitability. He has developed two new themes in the story, which are what legacy humans will leave behind and how nature would react to the disappearance of humans. Wherever humankind backs its effect off even a bit, nature returns swarming. This book can be compared to the two series of documentary called “Life After People”. Both the book and the documentary have the same idea. In the documentary, the first 15 minute before the humans disappear, they get all bend out of shape. After some minutes, the impact of the lack of people is noticed. As more and more passes, we see that the same thing that would happen in the world without us will also happen in the life after people. Skyscrapers will fall,
As the author …show more content…
He is trying to imagine how the world will survive without us to take care of it. He said that that we are stretching our resources too much. Weisman is saying that once we disappear, everything will go back to normal. An example is when he says that New York City will go back to the forest it was. He supports his argument by referring to other things that will not last. In general, he is saying that the earth would return to the way it was before human interruption. Some of our toughest creation would not last much more than a decade without humans. Example, “After just two days, with no one around to monitor and man the pumps, the New York City subways would flood”. Weisman indicates how underground water would annihilate city lanes, lightning would set blazes, dampness and creatures would turn calm zone suburbs into woodlands in 500 years and 441 atomic plants would overheat and smolder or melt. "Watch, and perhaps learn," composes the creator. A number of his lessons originate from past advancements, for example, the sudden vanishing of the Maya 1,600 years prior and the advancement of creatures and people in Africa. Extensions will fall, metros close blame lines in New York and San Francisco will collapse, glacial masses will wipe away a significant part of the fabricated world and foragers will clean our human bones inside a couple of months. Humans are able to take care of …show more content…
Throughout the book, he uses the future tense instead of condition, enforcing a feeling of grim inevitability. He has developed two new themes in the story, which are what legacy humans will leave behind and how nature would react to the disappearance of humans. Wherever humankind backs its effect off even a bit, nature returns swarming. This book can be compared to the two series of documentary called “Life After People”. Both the book and the documentary have the same idea. In the documentary, the first 15 minute before the humans disappear, they get all bend out of shape. After some minutes, the impact of the lack of people is noticed. As more and more passes, we see that the same thing that would happen in the world without us will also happen in the life after people. Skyscrapers will fall,