The World Without Us

艾伦·韦斯曼，屡获殊荣的新闻记者，他的报道在《哈珀斯》、《纽约时报杂志》、《大西洋月刊》、《发现》和美国国家公共电台等地方发表或播报。他曾是《洛杉矶时报杂志》的特约编辑，现在新闻从业者团体Homelantls Productionsrp担任资深出品人，并在亚利桑那大学教授国际新闻学课程。《没有我们的世界》是他对一篇文稿《没有人类的地球》（发表于2005 年《发现》杂志）的扩充，被评选为“2006年度美国最佳科学写作”。

出版者:Thomas Dunne Books

作者:Alan Weisman

页数:320

出版时间:2007-07-10

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780312347291

图书标签:环境科学environment美国UsWorld小说Without

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth

In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York’s subways would start eroding the city’s foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists---who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths---Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth’s tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman’s narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.

读后感

花了一周看完了。 哎，现在已经很幸福了。 看得见蓝天白云，种着清脆鲜嫩的蔬菜，在夕阳余晖下和一家人吹着凉凉的晚风在天台吃饭。 看的到孩子天真的笑脸，看得见老人安详的面庞，看得到爱人至今还在长着青春痘的长脸。。。。。。 没有我们的世界，会有一段漫长的调整期吧。毕...  

某天半夜，见老戴在Q上挂着，问候之，曰：“在看书。” 就是这本。 有一天，人类突然全体消失，地球会变成什么样子？历程如何？即是此书的内容。 粗略地翻过，很有些画面感，让我想起了一部电影——《时光机器》。 一部想像得很漂亮文字也很漂亮的书。可惜的是，并没激发我...  

花了一周看完了。 哎，现在已经很幸福了。 看得见蓝天白云，种着清脆鲜嫩的蔬菜，在夕阳余晖下和一家人吹着凉凉的晚风在天台吃饭。 看的到孩子天真的笑脸，看得见老人安详的面庞，看得到爱人至今还在长着青春痘的长脸。。。。。。 没有我们的世界，会有一段漫长的调整期吧。毕...  

某天半夜，见老戴在Q上挂着，问候之，曰：“在看书。” 就是这本。 有一天，人类突然全体消失，地球会变成什么样子？历程如何？即是此书的内容。 粗略地翻过，很有些画面感，让我想起了一部电影——《时光机器》。 一部想像得很漂亮文字也很漂亮的书。可惜的是，并没激发我...  

这本书，吸引我的是她的题目，而勾住我的还是她的内容。 我是瓶男，天生特有的性格特征，这本收非常对我的味，我可以和作者一起去想像一个没有我们的世界，就像是我和作者在一起讨论如何，更或者像是我和作者在一起写这本书一样，我沉浸其中。 当然，这本书所写的内容还...  

用户评价

看着还是这样~~~~

如果人类忽然集体消失，地球将会怎样？ 被驯化的狗大概会灭绝，而野性犹存的猫可以坚持下来。巴拿马运河的闸门和大坝坚持不了几年，石油炼化厂和核电站也迟早会爆炸燃烧。曼哈顿几百年后就会变回丛林，总统山的雕像却能留存七百万年。 从波兰与白俄罗斯交界处欧洲最后的原始森林，到美洲大陆消失的巨型动物与玛雅人；从土耳其的地下城市，到朝韩三八线上出人意料的丹顶鹤生态区；从脆弱的金曼礁珊瑚，到近乎永生的塑料垃圾和核废料……唯一确定的是，人类不过是地球偶得的一场病毒，而时间终将令地球自愈。

It's an interesting thought experiment: what would happen if human race suddenly disappears from the earth overnight? It turns out that the earth is so powerful to repair itself and within a couple hundred years most of human traces will be eliminated. However, it is a little too detailed for my interest.

看着还是这样~~~~

想象之时脑内已杂草丛生。我对环境问题一直都提不起兴趣，但对人类起源和灭绝的书都一个激灵坐起。