I finished reading Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. It was a great read, one I’d recommend for everyone. Imagine what the world would look like tomorrow if we all disappeared today? What would last, and what would fade quickly away? Fascinating enough, most of the things we think of as permanent and lasting, will be gone. If all of us humans were gone after 1000 years all that would be left are the chemicals we have synthesized (plastics, DDT, etc), radiation (some of the isotopes we use in nuclear reactors have a half-life of over 4 billion years?!), and electric signals. While nothing of us would be left, save for the endless re-runs of I Love Lucy which are beaming out to all parts of the universe, it is nice to know that Nature in all her glory and variety will bounce back and with us no longer here wild-life will flourish…
Oh, and check out the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). I’ll keep the link on the reading list up for a few days more before I take it down.
No we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it
