The World Without Us

by: Alan Weisman
The World Without Us
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Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007
Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007
Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award
Salon Book Awards 2007
Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2007 (#4)
Barnes and Noble 10 Best of 2007: Politics and Current Affairs
Kansas City Star’s Top 100 Books of the Year 2007
Mother Jones’ Favorite Books of 2007
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Books of the Year 2007
Hudson’s Best Books of 2007
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of 2007
St. Paul Pioneer Press Best Books of 2007


If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? How would the planet reclaim its surface? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures--our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments--survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other, the most affecting portrait yet of humankind's place on this planet.








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Average Rating: out of 5 stars
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A World Without Us
I bought this book as a gift and it was well received. I haven't read it personally but I am told it is well written and intriguing.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Mother Nature's revenge?
This is a subversive book in the sense that the core idea is both simple and insidious - what would happen if Mankind just disappeared?

The answer is usually interesting and often horrifying, depending on the specific `what/where/when' that Alan Weisman is describing, but perhaps most importantly, 'The World Without Us' is fantastically readable, especially if you have a leaning toward things technological, and particularly the impact of our 'plastic fantastic' society.

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Engaging, environmentally conscious book
The author does a great job presenting the material in an unbiased way that engages and draws the reader in. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested an engrossing, thoughtful piece of nonfiction about the environmental processes that shape our world and the artificial mechanisms that are slowly undermining it.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - So what happens when we are gone?
Image a world with no humans. How would nature reclaim that which she had lost for thousands of years? How long would she take. What artifacts of human existence would last the longest. Alan Wesiman's sweeping account of this simple postulation in The World Without Us, and the adaptive nature of nature itself is a remarkable read - not only for the knowledge that it disseminates about the world around us as well as what we have done to it.

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Treasure Trove for the Thoughtful Reader
Alan Weisman's The World Without Us is much more fun than a box of chocolates.Just how WOULD our favorite planet respond if Mother Earth hit the delete button on the entire human race?Weisman, a talented and experienced journalist endeavors to answer this question, with fascinating results. Sound like fun?It is! Be it discussions about the Voluntary Society for Human Extinction, a tour of New York subways that would be doomed by even a couple of days without electric power, 280 feet deep cave cities beneath ... Read More
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