Svět bez nás – Weisman Alan (2022)

A thought experiment that became a New York Times bestseller and was declared the best popular science publication of 2007 by two magazines - Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Would you be interested in what would happen if people suddenly disappeared from our planet? How long would traces of humanity remain on Earth? How quickly would the infrastructure we built collapse? How long would buildings, subways, and cities last without our care? Monuments and art? Which would last the longest, and which would fall first? Which animals would benefit from our disappearance, and which would perish with us? It is assumed, for example, that cockroaches would naturally go extinct along with us, but birds would fare much better and evolve into many new species. How would farms, fields, national parks, and gardens fare? The longest-lasting items on Earth without us would be bronze statues, artificial materials, and radio waves. At the same time, from some areas on Earth that humans have damaged and then abandoned (e.g., Chernobyl), it is evident that nature has a self-healing power. Alan Weisman, an award-winning American journalist, based his hypotheses on the expertise of engineers, art conservators, climatologists, zoologists, biologists, astrophysicists,...