The World Without Us - Couverture rigide

Weisman, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1905264038 ISBN 13 : 9781905264032

Editeur : Virgin Books, 2007

Synopsis

A fascinating - and terrifying - glimpse of what the world would be like if humans disappeared today

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Weisman is a journalist and the author of numerous books. His writing has won several major awards and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A fascinating glimpse of what would happen to the earth if humans vanished today, forever. What would be the legacy of our time on the planet? How quickly would all traces of our presence be erased? And would the planet ever fully recover?

"This is one of the grandest thought experiments of our time, a tremendous feat of imaginative reporting!" Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Enough

"Offers us a sketch of where we stand as a species that is both illuminating and terrifying. His tone is conversational and his affection for both Earth and humanity transparent." Barry Lopez, National Book Award-winner

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go."

How would the world change if human beings vanished from the earth right now, for good? What would the planet be like in a day, a week, a month... a millennium? In the current age of anxiety about our impact on the earth's climate and environment, this groundbreaking book offers an intriguing glimpse of what the real legacy of our time on the planet may be.

The World Without Us takes readers on a journey into the future, to a world without humans and asks how the natural world would respond if we all simply disappeared. Would the planet's climate ever recover from the effects of human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities? Could it ever reduce our myriad plastics and toxic synthetics back to benign, basic elements? And what about architecture and art? Will we have left any enduring mark on the universe; any sign that we were once here?

To discover the answers, Alan Weisman looks to areas of the world that are currently unoccupied to see how they have fared without us. He reveals how animals would react to our disappearance and how the planet's flora would be affected, and uncovers just how long our greatest achievements and our biggest mistakes would last after we are gone. In doing so he wrestles with some of the key concerns of our time and reveals a picture of the future that is both captivating and terrifying.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virgin Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905264038
• ISBN 13: 9781905264032
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible