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Hollywood films love to deal with Armageddon / Doomsday themes, where the very existence of humans are threatened by asteroids, nuclear bombs, incurable deadly viruses and aliens.
WHAT IF the wildest Hollywood plot comes true? What happens if humans succumb to a virus and the entire human race is suddenly wiped out off the planet tomorrow? If the dinosaurs, animals and plants can become extinct, why can't the human race? This is exactly what award-winning journalist Alan Weisman writes about in his thought-provoking book The World Without Us. This book is a hypothetical look into the future based on interviews and opinions from scientists and other experts. >> http://www.worldwithoutus.com/ Check out the Did You Know? section of the site. It shows a hypothetical timeline on what happens after humans disappeared. Scary.. but it gets better (for the planet) after the passing of millions of years. If we go, we certainly leave damaging traces for the Earth.. especially to the environment. It will take AAAGES for the Earth to recover. A World without us. A highly possible scenario, looking at how we are treating the planet..
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Isn't there something on the History Channel? Earth without humans or something like that?
I'm not going for a virus, it takes too long. My bets: 1) Asteroid. I mean, Apophis is on it's way in 2012, or something. 2) Supervolcano eruption. Yellowstone in the US might burst its top and Danau Toba in neighbouring Sumatra seems to be giving more tremors day in day out. 3) Nuclear war. Geopolitically speaking, we're highly volatile at the moment, and any wrong move would result in North Korea or Russia shooting nukes to the US, the US retaliates with best friend Australia and Kuching stuck in the crossfire, with a nuclear winter. 4) Climatic change. A sudden and abrupt change in weather patterns, continental shifts change the very monsoons and gulf streams that give us rain and all. But aliens? We have a higher chance of Godzilla or Cloverfield stomping our puny little bodies than ET coming down in his spaceship and sucking the life out of us (Stargate Atlantis, anyone?). Kinda reminds me of the book 'End of Civilization.' 'Clash of Civilizations' is proving to be a self-fullfilling prophecy.
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You mean "Life After People"? It's interesting, but it didn't cover much environmental concerns that were mentioned with much detail in the book. Such as the fact that when humans cease to exist and produce plastics, whatever that were produced will last for a long time. Or the fact that nuclear plants will continue to run without human control until they overheat and explode, spilling radioactive waste into the environment... etc.
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If human doesn't exist, there is no problem what the world become. The sun will continue to rise from the east, and the whole universe will keep on running.
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yes, but this isn't about what if humans didn't exist. it's about what if humans CEASE to exist suddenly... when humans are going about their daily life, what if suddenly they get wiped out one day? what are the consequences, especially environmental consequences? Weisman's book is all about that. If you check out the website, it has an interesting timeline of what happened from 2 days after humans disappeared right to 'forever'. The first few thousands, millions even years are still damaging, but as Earth recovers itself new life starts. And then probably a new dawn begins. Well, until the next appearance of 'intelligent lifeforms', I suppose.
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A new species will be formed and to replace humans as dominant species in this planet. Humans replace dinosaur as the dominant species in this world. This process takes very long but the question is, when will we be replaced?
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If human ceased to exist, what ever the world become is no longer our concern. The whole universe will keep on running, and what ever happens will not be a problem because there will be some life-forms benefiting from our dissapearance and some other life-forms suffering because of it. It will be a concern if a male and female person manage to escape the wipe-out. The concern will be on how to populate the planet again and continue the legacy of the human race.
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Well, we might be replaced by the 'dominant feral cats' like the author said.
Either way, humanity will disappear but under who's watch is anyone's guess...
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Then again, come to think about it, nuclear reactor meltdown, wouldn't it cause some areas to be under high radioactivity, thus killing lifeforms and perhaps severely mutating others? I haven't read enough on Chernobyll but the meltdown was contained yet it caused irreversible damage to the environment, despite it still surviving.
Maybe nature would find a way around that. Uranium is a naturally occurring ore in Australia and Canada anyway.
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Yup.. all that because humans once existed. It may be none of our concern since hypothetically we wouldn't be around, but that's the whole idea. The idea that we exist, therefore we leave scars on the Earth, but even when we no longer exist, the scars still remain and the planet will continue to hurt until eons from now. That's the impact our existence have on this planet. And.. if our species don't die off, imagine the future that our offspring and their offspring will live in... all because we are leaving "traces" as we go about our lives now. Pretty bleak stuff if you think about it.
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