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PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:40 pm    Post subject: Earth without people Reply with quote

Here is an interesting article about nature taking the planet back if there were no humans.

http://mit.edu/7.01x/7.014/documents/Ecological_Applications_2.pdf
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kris



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, that was really interesting, thanks for posting that. I've heard a few people mention recently that the planet is dying, but now some new crazy theories are going through my head and that's always fun, although I think I might lose a couple nights sleep contemplating what might happen next if the Earth is going to try to save itself by ridding itself of humanity.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman is a great book on this topic, expanding on all of the ideas in the article and adding a lot of other really interesting information. Me and Jack and Dave listened to "The World Without Us" as an audiobook on tour a couple years ago and it really blew us away, I recommend it extremely highly!!
I guess Weisman must have written that article before he wrote the full book, maybe he even mentions in the book that the idea started from that article, I forget.
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