Wednesday's Pick!

In The World Without Us journalist Alan Weisman asks us to envision our Earth, without us. What would happen in nature if humans suddenly disappeared, if we stopped creating, changing and destroying. He suggests it would take 2 days for New York City’s subways to flood and about 7 days for nuclear reactors to begin either melting or burning. But 100,000 years would pass before carbon dioxide levels would return to pre-industrial levels. Some plastics could last 100,000's of years, until microbes would evolve that would eat plastics. Human "perfected" domesticated animals and plants would revert to their original forms or even die out. He offers an original approach to questions of humanity's impact on this planet. Fascinating and thought-provoking.

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