Final Days

[Dave Monroe]

Weisman, Alan. The World without Us.
   New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/

June 17, 2007
		
An Earth Without People
		
A new way to examine humanity's impact on the environment is to
consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared
		
By Steve Mirsky		

Editors' Introduction

It's a common fantasy to imagine that you're the last person left
alive on earth. But what if all human beings were suddenly whisked off
the planet? That premise is the starting point for The World without
Us, a new book by science writer Alan Weisman, an associate professor
of journalism at the University of Arizona. In this extended thought
experiment, Weisman does not specify exactly what finishes off Homo
sapiens; instead he simply assumes the abrupt disappearance of our
species and projects the sequence of events that would most likely
occur in the years, decades and centuries afterward....

http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=2691D716-E7F2-99DF-38F54EF6075AAB4D