by Chris Mackowski
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
Thomas Dunne Books–St. Martin’s Press
324 pp.
What would the world be like if the human race just up and vanished?
“Unlikely, perhaps, but for the sake of argument, not impossible,†writes journalist Alan Weisman. Perhaps a human-specific virus wipes us out or aliens kidnap us or God raptures us away. Poof—we’re gone. Tomorrow.
That’s the hypothetical premise behind Weisman’s newest book, The World Without Us.
But while the premise sounds fanciful, Weisman offers nothing but cold, hard facts and a gnawing gut feeling that something is already dreadfully, dreadfully wrong. Full story »
