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”。
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.
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...
评分译文比较考究,感觉像散文一样。但是对我来说,却没有足够的信息量。 既然自己读不下去,怎么还给打4星啊?原因是,相信还是有很多人会喜欢这本书的。
评分某天半夜,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...
评分人类已经在周边世界的山坡上筑起了太多的大坝,一层层、一级级,令人不安的是,大多数人都没有意识到这有多么危险。我们似乎从来没想过那些坚固无比的大坝也有决堤的一天,更没想过如果决堤的大坝引起连锁反应,整个人类文明是否能再找到自己的方舟。我所说的“大坝”,并不是...
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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评分很新奇主题 感觉是翻译的问题 有些影响
评分经典而有趣,这种感觉仿佛又回到从前读guns germs and steel
评分很新奇主题 感觉是翻译的问题 有些影响
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