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If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later? (theconversation.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I liked this article. It was a weird feeling to read it because I felt like it would be quite nice if humans disappeared from the planet...

At the same time I'm happy to be here, enjoying all the tech we have and the tools we have, the food we eat.

I still think humans can live in harmony with nature but we don't have any good leaders to take civilization in that direction. So in the end, we will probably perish because we fought over power and money until there was nothing left.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is a good book to read if you're interested in this topic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Agreed. Interestingly the English canal tunnel would be among the last human made structures left after everything else is gone. That and the faces on Mount Rushmore. Old steel bridges would last for pretty long too as they are extremely overbuilt. Back then they really didn't have ways to calculate how strong they need to be so they just made everything way beefier than necessary.