How
would the world change if human beings vanished from the earth right now, for
good? What would the planet be like in a day, a week, a month... a millennium?
Just how long will our greatest achievements and our biggest mistakes last
after we are gone? To discover the answers, Alan Weisman looks to areas of the
world that are currently unoccupied and speaks to experts in fields ranging
from nuclear physics to archaeology. He reveals how the natural world would
react to our disappearance and wrestles with some of the key concerns of our
time to offer an intriguing glimpse of the real legacy of our existence on the
planet.
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