(2007) either spawned a mini-industry of imagining Earth without humans or it tapped into a meme that's probably been floating around for a while, taking the popular science fiction theme of the last person on Earth to its ultimate conclusion. Weisman does not impose a doomsday scenario, rather his work is based on a thought experiment, examining how ecosystems would recover should humanity suddenly and totally disappear. He is not concerned with how or why this might happen, just that it does and how the world would move on and over the remains of a human-populated globe.Monday, December 21, 2009
The World Without Us (2007) book
Alan Weisman's non-fiction book The World Without Us (2007) either spawned a mini-industry of imagining Earth without humans or it tapped into a meme that's probably been floating around for a while, taking the popular science fiction theme of the last person on Earth to its ultimate conclusion. Weisman does not impose a doomsday scenario, rather his work is based on a thought experiment, examining how ecosystems would recover should humanity suddenly and totally disappear. He is not concerned with how or why this might happen, just that it does and how the world would move on and over the remains of a human-populated globe.
(2007) either spawned a mini-industry of imagining Earth without humans or it tapped into a meme that's probably been floating around for a while, taking the popular science fiction theme of the last person on Earth to its ultimate conclusion. Weisman does not impose a doomsday scenario, rather his work is based on a thought experiment, examining how ecosystems would recover should humanity suddenly and totally disappear. He is not concerned with how or why this might happen, just that it does and how the world would move on and over the remains of a human-populated globe.
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