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The World Without Us Alan Weisman
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Americans can't spend, but what about the Chinese and the Germans? NPR used a FOIA Request to obtain this stunning document laying out what life would have been like after the U.S had eliminated its debt. Published in 2007, The World Without Us is beautifully written, chock full of interesting facts, and, in the end, terribly flawed. What would the world be like if humans were to disappear from the planet? In the movie The Day After Tomorrow Manhattan subway tunnels get flooded by unremitting rain over a period of just a few days. In today's world there is more CO2 floating around in the world than there ever was in the past 650,000 years. The world without us 198x300 BOOK REVIEW // 'The What if humanity suddenly ceased to exist? Another good documentary w/ a similar aim is The World Without Us (netflix) that looks at what would happen if the US took an isolationist stance on foreign policy. Technology that normally pumps excess water is simply overwhelmed. What would the world be like without us. The author says that we've basically become a volcano that hasn't stopped erupting since the 1700s.