The World Without Us

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艾伦·韦斯曼,屡获殊荣的新闻记者,他的报道在《哈珀斯》、《纽约时报杂志》、《大西洋月刊》、《发现》和美国国家公共电台等地方发表或播报。他曾是《洛杉矶时报杂志》的特约编辑,现在新闻从业者团体Homelantls Productionsrp担任资深出品人,并在亚利桑那大学教授国际新闻学课程。《没有我们的世界》是他对一篇文稿《没有人类的地球》(发表于2005 年《发现》杂志)的扩充,被评选为“2006年度美国最佳科学写作”。

出版者:Thomas Dunne Books
作者:Alan Weisman
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页数:320
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出版时间:2007-07-10
价格:USD 24.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780312347291
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  • 环境 
  • 科学 
  • environment 
  • 美国 
  • Us 
  • World 
  • 小说 
  • Without 
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A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth

In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York’s subways would start eroding the city’s foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists---who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths---Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth’s tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman’s narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.

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美国科学记者艾伦•韦斯曼在《没有我们的世界》中畅想了一个没有人类的世界。无独有偶,就在本书出版的同时,一组名为“被大自然占领的无人村”的照片走红网络。那是浙江一个无人居住的小岛,人类离开后,植物占领了人造的墙壁、屋顶,人类生存的痕迹消失在苍茫的绿色...  

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某天半夜,见老戴在Q上挂着,问候之,曰:“在看书。” 就是这本。 有一天,人类突然全体消失,地球会变成什么样子?历程如何?即是此书的内容。 粗略地翻过,很有些画面感,让我想起了一部电影——《时光机器》。 一部想像得很漂亮文字也很漂亮的书。可惜的是,并没激发我...  

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今日在《纽约》杂志上看到一文,说哥伦比亚大学环境科学和微生物教授Dickson Despommier博士建议,解决气候变暖,一个治本的办法是开展skyfarming(摩天大楼农业)。他设想建立30层高的摩天大楼,里头种菜种水果。北京办奥运不是有一口号吗,办绿色奥运。我在想,假如北京的三...  

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如果人类忽然集体消失,地球将会怎样? 被驯化的狗大概会灭绝,而野性犹存的猫可以坚持下来。巴拿马运河的闸门和大坝坚持不了几年,石油炼化厂和核电站也迟早会爆炸燃烧。曼哈顿几百年后就会变回丛林,总统山的雕像却能留存七百万年。 从波兰与白俄罗斯交界处欧洲最后的原始森林,到美洲大陆消失的巨型动物与玛雅人;从土耳其的地下城市,到朝韩三八线上出人意料的丹顶鹤生态区;从脆弱的金曼礁珊瑚,到近乎永生的塑料垃圾和核废料……唯一确定的是,人类不过是地球偶得的一场病毒,而时间终将令地球自愈。

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看着还是这样~~~~

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It's an interesting thought experiment: what would happen if human race suddenly disappears from the earth overnight? It turns out that the earth is so powerful to repair itself and within a couple hundred years most of human traces will be eliminated. However, it is a little too detailed for my interest.

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看着还是这样~~~~

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totally depressed. good for non-environmentalists. anti-feminism.

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