Life After People
Rust in peace: Made of steel, the Eiffel Tower, France’s monument to the industrial age, teeters
Welcome to Planet Earth: Population Zero.
This is what our world would look like without people. Images like the one above were created to illustrate what would happen if human life ceased tomorrow, if, for whatever reason, mankind was obliterated.
The question it raises is: how long would the remnants of our civilisation remain? The answer, astonishingly, is: almost nothing.
Within a hundred years most traces of our modern-day lives would be so destroyed by weather, corrosion, earth tremors, surviving animals, insects and bacteria that the monuments and hieroglyphics of ancient civilisations would be better preserved than our buildings and our billions of books and electronic records. […]
Life After People is a 2-hour documentary, aired by the History Channel next (Easter) Sunday. The Daily Mail writes about it, and has some scary images of what the world will look like when we’ve gone.
Mon 17-Mar-08 | Posted in: History, Oops
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