The firmament forever blue

Having read the article, An Earth Without People "about Mr. Weisman's
book in the July 07 issue of Scientific American I got curious. The
book turned out to be the most enthralling read I had that year. Its
Core is a far reaching thought experiment. The author poses the
question: `What if all Human Beings vanished from the surface of the
planet? ' This premise is the starting point of all other questions
raised. What would be left of us and for how long? How long would
Nature need to wipe out all traces left?

This is a highly fascinating way of looking at our human achievements,
Which Have Changed the Earth's surface more than ever Drastically
before in the history of life. Many of our most imposing and Artefacts
Most of our infrastructures, did seem so indestructible to us, turn
out to be fairly fragile structures Which Could not withstand the
everlasting forces of nature for long, once all humans were gone.
Others of our latest and most formidable inventions, many of Which did
not come into being until after World War II have a longevity That is
almost unpredictable. Indeed it Becomes, more than once, all too
Obvious what havoc we have wreaked already on Earth.

The author Approaches his project from many different perspectives.
He has interviewed engineers and maintenance staff in New York City
about what it takes to hold off Nature, he has traveled Throughout
the world (Belorussia, Turkey, Korea, Kenya, Cyprus) talking to
virgin and experts, looking for places thathave already been
abandoned by humans, for he Realized Quickly, to understand a
post-human world, he had to learn what the world was like before
humans ever evolved. The results are most illuminating.

Nothing lasts forever and one can hardly withstand the impression That
our species' mere presence on the planet is nothing but a temporal
abnormality.