The World Without Us (book)

we humans

I highly recommend reading this book, he became acquainted with the documentaries, but the book is tremendous ... nothing to do with what you see .. it all started with a simple note on the very interesting, I went, I asked in yenny and was sooo good reading experience.
I highly recommend it.
Some details of the book.




I will not post data but only comments from the book, for example detailing how small and minute details, such as nuts bridge san francisco (which happens every year) the water pipes in your house, your dog your cat, the tiles ...
are things that you do not see the documentary, and the book takes you!

The World Without Us (original title: The World Without Us) is a scientific book about the impact on Earth would the disappearance of human beings. Its author is the American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin 's Thomas Dunne Books in 2007.2
The play is an expanded version of the article "Earth Without People" by the same author, published in Discover magazine in February 2005.3 Written primarily as a thought experiment, The world without us resume, for example, how cities and households were to deteriorate, many artificial devices prevail and how life forms evolve remaining. Weisman concludes that residential neighborhoods would become forests within a period not to exceed 500 years and that radioactive waste, the bronze statues, plastics, and Mount Rushmore would be among the most enduring evidence of the presence human on the planet.
Having written four previous books and numerous articles for magazines, Weisman traveled to various places to interview academics, scientists and other officials. Once done, he used excerpts from these dialogues to explain the resulting effects on nature and, in turn, to substantiate the predictions made so far on the subject. The work has been translated and published in several countries. In the United States peaked at number six on the list of 'best-selling books "The New York Times4 and first place in the San Francisco Chronicle in September of 2007.5 also ranked first among the books sold in listings produced by Weekly.7 time6 and Entertainment As criticism, the writing style and how to address scientific issues were two aspects praised, although some journalists, including one from The Washington Post, 8 disagreed regarding the absence of anthropomorphic analysis of the content.








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is my first post, I hope you like it, have little info but I recommend something really worthwhile, the book, not the series.