Status Updates From The World Without Us

“Eventually they will change. Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.”

“The matter is more complicated than a killer instinct that never relents until another species is gone. It involves acquisition that also can’t tell when to stop, until something we never intended to harm is fatally deprived of something it needs. We don’t actually have to shoot songbirds to remove them from the sky. Take away enough of their home or sustenance, and they fall dead on their own.”

“Our job is to hand over these treasures to the next generation in better shape than when we accepted them.”

Learning about the 1974 conflict in Croatia and how the abandoned buildings in the war zone show us how nature would respond if humans disappeared..