No more humans

good video, thanks for recommending it.

I don't know the actual numbers... but just look at NY, LA or Tokyo, or almost any city... in most cases the land was once lush forrests, swamps, meadows... but now where life once grew there are 10 lane freeways, and more or less solid concrete 'jungles' miles in diameter.
seriously, just look at the city of new york. the entire area was a forest. carbon absorbing, nitrogen fixing, food producing, biodiverse... but now, with so many buildings, roads, parking lots... it's litterally like a volcano covered the area in stone.

sorry I don't know the numbers... maybe I'll try to find them.

again... paving over every foot of viable soil is the threat... not really population or polution. but soil exposure and runoff. that's the real threat.

STOP paving over eveyything!

Hi again "Cant",
Seems we are bound to run into each other. This is sooooo neat. Thought I'd right a note AGAIN, seems to be a lot going around today, and this Google mail is an absolute horror!!! Have you heard? Really. It is almost illegible, and the graphics are a nightmare.
Take care gary
Donna

This is part of my blog I posted back in March of 2008.You may find it interesting or not when it relates to our planet.
End of an Epoch

The impact humans have had on the surface of the planet has become so expansive that scientists say Earth has entered a new epoch - the Anthropocene.
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams at the University of Leicester, and their colleagues on the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London, analyzed a proposal made by Nobel Prize -winning chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000 that suggested the world has left the Holocene epoch because of the global environmental effects of increased human population and economic development. They factored in transformed patterns of sediment, disruptions to the carbon cycle and wholesale changes to the world's plants and animals. The team argues that the dominance of humans has so physically changed the planetary landscape that post-industrialized Earth can no longer be considered still in the Holocene epoch.
Duke University soil scientist Daniel Richter wrote in the journal Soil Science that more than half of all soils on Earth are now being cultivated for food crops, grazed or periodically logged for wood. At the current rate of consumption our Earth could become barren due to environmental abuse and neglect in the next 30 years . Though many scientists believe that is unlikely due to guidelines set by industrialized countries to prevent that scenario from happening. We shall see if that 'guess' is correct.

boo hoo

I've recently seen 2 documentaries on this fascinating subject. Eventually, it will be inevitable & Mother Nature will provide the Earth with a host of new inhabitants. We just won't be around to fuck everything up.

WOW! I got ti figure out something for my cats should thi happen.

I didnt kn that things would go crazy one hour after we vanish....but ive never thot about it! CrazY!
I dont think i want what the modern world has created if we effect it so much after humans!

People should understand that the Journalist that posted whatever it is there is doing to expose the issue so people can limit themselves to talk about the issue on the board and not about the one that posted it. If you are attacking the one that post it, in this case the Journalist, you must certainly have a personal and questionable issue going on in yourself.

Thank you for this post Vierotchka, really interesting and well produced doc... Glad to have seen it!

a very interesting read by alan weisman
http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

WONDERFUL PIECE, I ENJOYED THE WHOLE THING..GIVES ONE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, OTHER THAN THIS REALLY SCREWED UP WORLD WE LIVE IN.

I've seen something akin to this on Discover or NGC. If anyone ever needs an ego check this is one they need to view. It is so easy to slip into that thought process of the planet being about us, rather than vice-versa.

How'd this get to left or right?

I watched @3AM and it is powerful. It took us 10,000 years to mess it up and about 300 yrs for mother Earth to fix herself.

I wish I could live in Fallout 3 capital waste land.

Give or take a few million years and things may return to where they were when dinasours roamed the earth then morons similar to us will eventually come back and start chopping the trees down and polluting the planet. Once again mans destruction will go on in ever decreasing circles into perpetuity.

In a similar vein I was discussing with my grandaughter a subject regarding "self"and "soul" naturally we disagreed and my version of soul was that when I die my brain is certified as dead and my phsycal prescence is extinct.So I said that when I die the only memories that remain are those of people who remember me, my laugh.voice.looks,works and sense of humour.My conclusion was that those who may remeber me represent my "self" and that is what my "soul" really is as when the pass away I am forgotten. Danielle say souls go to heaven

Ive seen the documentary, freaky, but apparently it has happened before, with all the evidence they are finding, pyramids ect.

I read an article in Discover Magazine a couple of years ago about this.
It is amazing to think that all of our structures and monuements that we have built to ourselves, would be virtually gone in about 10,000 years.
Rather sad....but inevitable.

It has absolutely nothing to do with politics, left or right, arcticspirit. Perhaps you should watch the video. :) Oh, and I'm not a radical leftist, I am a free-thinking compassionate humanist.

No, I never wondered about this, not ever. Why? I am not a radical leftist!