Read The World without Us by Alan Weisman. He examines what would happen to our world if humans completely disappeared. What are the environmental impacts? What would go first? What would last forever. (New York City subways and polymers, respectively). To shape his argument, Weisman looks at the world before us, talks to scientists, travels to the DMZ between North and S. Korea, the abandoned hotels in the Turkish part of Cyprus, and even the Capadocia region of Turkey to hypothesize about the environmental impact of the disappearance of the human race.
It's both disturbing and comforting to think of the Earth repairing itself after we are gone.
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