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Fri, 01-02-2009, 04:29 PM
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Book: The World Without Us
Has anyone read this book by Alan Weisman? It examines what would happen to the world's flora and fauna and even human constructs if humans were to disappear tomorrow or gradually die out. A lot of it seems like pseudo-science and a lot is definitely conjecture, but has enough truth and sense to be plausible.
It examines what was here before humans, what possibly happened to other species of life once humans became the dominant organism on the planet, how long the planet would take to recover to its previous state once humans are gone, and how human achievements would fare without us around to maintain them.
Very interesting read.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
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