Planet Earth: Year Zero ; We're All Told Mankind Is Destroying Our World. But What Would Happen If the Human Race Disappeared Overnight? A New Book Gives the Astonishing Answer
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SIX-AND-A-HALF BILLION and rising. That is how many humans crowd our Planet Earth. And there is no doubt that we are wreaking terrible damage on our world. So much so that scientists talk about the 'Anthropocene' the destructive Era Of Man.
Our gases are polluting the atmosphere and warming the skies. Our chemicals taint the seas and the rivers; our farms and cities gobble up the landscape, pushing flora and fauna aside like sand before a bulldozer. Our green-and-blue world is still beautiful, but it is far from pristine. Our mark is everywhere.See the full content of this document
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Planet Earth: Year Zero ; We're All Told Mankind Is Destroying Our World. But What Would Happen If the Human Race Disappeared Overnight? A New Book Gives the Astonishing Answer
But just imagine what would happen if we were all to disappear, each and every one of us, tomorrow. That's right think what would take place if every single man, woman and child were to vanish off the face of the Earth in an instant.
That is the bizarre premise of a new book which speculates what would happen in the days, months, years and millennia ahead if homo sapiens surely the most extraordinary species ever to have evolved were suddenly to be swept away.The author, Alan Weisman, of Arizona University, does not speculate on the cause of the disappearance; this is immaterial, as this is not a book about the end of the world but ...See the full content of this document
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