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

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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

忍不住从编辑的角度说几句话，这个是职业病，不要见怪。 这本书在美国是畅销书，它也确实具有畅销书的潜质。环保话题是热点，此书的角度新颖，引导人们去设想一个人类消失后的世界，进而阐明人类活动对于地球的影响。 不过，仅仅如此吗？ 人类灭亡是一个最引人思考的命题。...  

总想构思一个故事，一个发生在人类灭绝之后，地球上新的智慧生物之间的故事。人类留下的遗迹是怎样影响到他们的生活的，他们怎么看待我们这些曾经在地球上生活过的生物。这本书详细地描述了人类离开以后地球的样子，内容很丰富，涉及很多方面。我们居住的房子怎么腐朽，艺术品...

《没有我们的世界》，这样一本书注定很吸引人。电视台找了些学者同作者座谈，偶尔看到了这个节目中的几个镜头。电视节目设定的讨论题目之一，大意是问如果人类不存在了，世界上谁是No.1，也就是说，谁会替代人类，成为世界的主宰？比如，狒狒会称霸地球吗？哦哈，多拽的话题。 ...  

人类可能经常在头脑中想象，如果没有鱼、没有鸟儿，这个世界会是怎样，但是是否曾经有一秒钟，你会想象如果这个世界没有人类会怎么样？ 艾伦•韦斯曼无疑为我们提供了这样一个新奇的视角，而这样的一个视角才是本书最大的特点与贡献吧。看《三体》第三部结尾的时候，阅读充满...  

用户评价

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~~~~

很有意思，人类今天的活动能够持续几何？文明的意义究竟在何方？

重返伊甸园。

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。