The World Without Us
Description : In this far reaching narrative Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and vanish without human presence which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left and how plastic bronze sculpture and man made molecules may be our lasting gifts to the universe Just days after humans disappear floods in New Yorks subways would start eroding the citys foundations and the worlds cities would crumble asphalt jungles giving way to real ones 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 who describe a prehuman world inhabited by
megafauna like giants sloths that stood taller than mammoths Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today if not for us Weisman reveals Earths tremendous capacity for self healing and shows which human devastations are indelible and what of our highest art and culture would endure longest Ultimately reaching a radical but persuasive solution to our planets problems one that neednt depend on our demise this is narrative nonfiction at its finest taking on an irresistible concept with gravity but a highly accessible touch