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.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.
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”。
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...
评分 评分这本书,吸引我的是她的题目,而勾住我的还是她的内容。 我是瓶男,天生特有的性格特征,这本收非常对我的味,我可以和作者一起去想像一个没有我们的世界,就像是我和作者在一起讨论如何,更或者像是我和作者在一起写这本书一样,我沉浸其中。 当然,这本书所写的内容还...
评分失控 评《没有我们的世界》 人类成为地球的主宰之后,已经考虑到了未来自我消失的一天。《没有我们的世界》就是一次畅想。没有人类的世界,不再有国界疆域的限制,不再会有越来越剧烈的纷争,不再会有对自然的掠夺和对生态的破坏。没有人类的世界,大自然会重新占领地球,绿色...
评分花了一周看完了。 哎,现在已经很幸福了。 看得见蓝天白云,种着清脆鲜嫩的蔬菜,在夕阳余晖下和一家人吹着凉凉的晚风在天台吃饭。 看的到孩子天真的笑脸,看得见老人安详的面庞,看得到爱人至今还在长着青春痘的长脸。。。。。。 没有我们的世界,会有一段漫长的调整期吧。毕...
经典而有趣,这种感觉仿佛又回到从前读guns germs and steel
评分经典而有趣,这种感觉仿佛又回到从前读guns germs and steel
评分经典而有趣,这种感觉仿佛又回到从前读guns germs and steel
评分经典而有趣,这种感觉仿佛又回到从前读guns germs and steel
评分经典而有趣,这种感觉仿佛又回到从前读guns germs and steel
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