newsoholic Time to become News Oholic!
“Nature will break down everything eventually,” says Alan Weisman, author of the 2007 book The World Without Us, which examines what would happen if humans vanished from the planet. “If it can’t break stuff down, it eventually buries it.”Before too long, all that will remain of humanity will be a thin layer of plastic, radioactive isotopes, and chicken bones we kill 60 billion chickens per year – in the fossil record. For evidence of this, we can look to areas of the planet that we’ve been forced to vacate. In the 19-mile exclusion zone surrounding the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine, which was severely contaminated following the 1986 reactor meltdown, plants and animals are thriving in ways they never did before.
How Human Extinction Would Change The Earth
“Nature will break down everything eventually,” says Alan Weisman, author of the 2007 book The World Without Us, which examines what would happen if humans vanished from the planet. “If it can’t break stuff down, it eventually buries it.”Before too long, all that will remain of humanity will be a thin layer of plastic, radioactive isotopes, and chicken bones we kill 60 billion chickens per year – in the fossil record. For evidence of this, we can look to areas of the planet that we’ve been forced to vacate. In the 19-mile exclusion zone surrounding the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine, which was severely contaminated following the 1986 reactor meltdown, plants and animals are thriving in ways they never did before.