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This book has inspired a lot of hype, from cable tv specials to seemingly endless similar titles. It's an interesting take on the consequences of human action as our impacts accumulate, particularly since the industrial revolution. I think it's worth a read because it discusses not only the destructive/regenerative dichotomy of Earth, but the intricacies of life, and how we take the delicate systems in our lives, both natural and anthropogenic, for granted every day. I hope it inspires people to
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This had the potential to be dry, boring, and repetitive. It was none of those things.
What an amazing book, stemming from a really simple, smack-your-forehead-why-didn't-I-think-of-that premise. He could have slacked off and just wrote conjecture, and interviewed a few "experts" and then did some armchair philosophizing about why we need to curtail our evil ways (or conversely, why we shouldn't bother), but he shines.
For starters, he actually goes to these places. An atoll in the middle of the ...more
What an amazing book, stemming from a really simple, smack-your-forehead-why-didn't-I-think-of-that premise. He could have slacked off and just wrote conjecture, and interviewed a few "experts" and then did some armchair philosophizing about why we need to curtail our evil ways (or conversely, why we shouldn't bother), but he shines.
For starters, he actually goes to these places. An atoll in the middle of the ...more
This is a fascinating story, well-written and very readable, about what would happen to the Earth should the human race disappear tomorrow, leaving everything else in place. What would happen to our cities, our nuclear power plants, our museums and our legacy as a human race.
He has done an impressive amount of research and has shown from areas around the world where humans have left (either due to contamination, nature conservation or simply due to lost civilization) how the Earth manages to su ...more
He has done an impressive amount of research and has shown from areas around the world where humans have left (either due to contamination, nature conservation or simply due to lost civilization) how the Earth manages to su ...more
What would happen if the human race just disappeared? This book takes a shot at answering that. From other species growing - and possibly taking our place, to everything we've built that requires constant maintenance (think nuclear reactors, pipelines, etc.), to forests regrowing, cities breaking down into wilderness. Great read for those fellow realists out there.
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I loved this book at first, but it was too slow and lengthy to keep me interested. I plan to finish it someday, just not now.
It was a good book in parts. It had a lot of information so it became boring at times.
Dec 10, 2007
Christina McKee
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Bricoleur (David) Soul
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