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It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us.

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Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us . Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us; how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without us; and how plastic, cast-iron, and radio waves may be our most lasting gifts to the planet. ButThe World Without Us is also about how parts of our world currently fare without a human presence (Cherbyl; a Polish old-growth forest; the Korean DMZ) and it looks at the human legacy on Earth, both fleeting and indelible. It's narrative n-fiction at its finest, taking on an irresistible concept with gravity and a highly-readable touch. Some examples of what would happen are: One year: Several more billion birds will live when airplane warning lights cease blinking; Twenty years: The water-soaked steel columns that support the street above New York's East Side would corrode and buckle. As Lexington Avenue caves in, it becomes a river; 100,000 years: CO2 will be back to pre-human levels (or it might take longer); Forever: Our radio waves, fragmented as they may be, will still be going out.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN-10
0312347294
ISBN-13
9780312347291
eBay Product ID (ePID)
182951095

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Content Note
Illustrations, Maps
Prizes
Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2008.
Author Biography
Alan Weisman is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared in Harper's,The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly,Discover, and on NPR, among others. A former contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions and teaches international journalism at the University of Arizona. His essay Earth Without People ( Discover magazine, February 2005), on which The World Without Us expands, was selected for Best American Science Writing 2006.
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Author(s)
Alan Weisman
Date of Publication
31/08/2007
Format Details
With Dust Jacket
Subject
Popular Science
Imprint
Thomas Dunne Books
Country of Publication
United States

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