Documentaries explaining what will happen when human race disappears
A question that necessarily comes to mind when humans is subjected to an unusual test: What would happen if Homo sapiens disappeared completely? Here are the documentaries looking for an answer to this problem.
Even though it is not exactly the same as the situation we are in now, some studies have been carried out with predictions about what might happen in the world if all of the people disappear completely at once.
Life After People
This two-season documentary (with its special episode), published in History Channel in 2009 and 2010, consists of 21 episodes in a broad frame from the first day of human erasure on the earth, based on abandoned real ghost cities and structures that nature swallows. , the remaining city, monuments, buildings, bridges, documents, etc. (in short, all traces of humanity), estimates and simulations of the fate of all fauna and flora.
Aftermath Population Zero
In this two-hour documentary broadcasted on the National Geographic Channel in 2008, 25,000 years after New York City is thought to have no signs of people living anymore (a few intermediate information: the forests return to their 10,000s ago ~ 500 years, large Giza sphinx is under the sand again ~ 500 years, the entire Eiffel tower is destroyed except for the feet ~ 1000 years, the rest of the monument apart from the base of the Statue of Liberty ~ 1000 years). The documentary also says that there are some remnants of the last traces of mankind to the Moon and plastics that will not deteriorate for millions of years.
The Future is Wild
Composed of Life After People and Aftermath Population Zero, this documentary, which derives scenarios about what will happen in the world if people suddenly disappear, not extinction of the human species, and was first published in 2002, consists of 13 chapters. In three different time zones (after 5 million years, after 100 million years and after 200 million years), possible future situations of various ecosystems (amazon forests, red algae, Mediterranean, etc.) are discussed.
The World Without Us
The 2007 edition of this book, which is mostly in the form of a thought experiment and consists of 27 parts, was written by Weisman, an American professor and journalist. In his book, which was included in the bestseller list of the year it was published, Weisman made many scientific predictions about various locations around the world (Panama canal, Chernobyl, Istanbul, Cappadocia, etc.) and radioactive litter, bronze statues, plastics and Mount Rushmore. He predicted that he would be among the last remains of civilization.
Source: eksisozluk.com
