Saturday, November 2, 2013

The World Without Us




This is a fascinating study on what would happen to earth if humans were not around. If you are an anthropology enthusiast you will love this book.  The scenario is as follows: what happens if a virus spread through the human race or an act of terror destroyed everyone and humans would no longer be around.  What would happen to the subway systems, the skyscrapers, our homes, the great masterpieces or our children’s art?  How long would they survive before they were reclaimed?  Which animal species would survive or if there were few in number, would they repopulate? Would the vegetation recover? 

These are just a few of the questions that are posed in this book.  By studying and discussing how things evolved to life as we now know it, the author reverses the process to show the reclamation of Fauna and Flora. 

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