This is narrative nonfiction at its finest-one of the most affecting portraits yet of humankind's place on this planet. In this revelatory account, Alan Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left and how plastic, bronze sculpture, and radio waves may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.Īs he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other. Sample Book Insights: 1 The Biaowiea Puszcza is a forest in Poland that contains Europes last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger And which would disappear Alan Weisman writes.

Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists, Alan Weisman deftly illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us. of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators.

The World Without Us is a penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth. Alan Weisman speaks about his groundbreaking book, The World Without Us 1. The World Without Us is a penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth.

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