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The World Without Us Alan Weisman
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

So, first, I would like to mention the fact that I was given this phenomenal book by a fellow Guizhou PCV, Christian, so a big thanks to him for passing it to me! Technology that normally pumps excess water is simply overwhelmed. Beyond nature's glorious design, as this book recounts, our hands and minds have worked to shape, build, plant and populate as much of this planet as, well, humanly possible. What might the world be like without hatred? How long would it take for all traces of mankind to disappear? How do we expect the rest of the world to look at us as “the good guys” when we are selfishly grabbing and recording all of their emails, phone calls and Internet searches without any concern for their privacy whatsoever? The writer-director team behind I Am Legend is making a science fiction movie out of The World Without Us, the hit non-fiction book about the ultimate post-apocalyptic world: one without humans altogether. €�Look around you, at today's world. Imagine waking up one morning to discover that the entire human race had vanished overnight. Yet envisioning that world through the lens of science is exactly what Alan Weisman has accomplished in his utterly captivating and beautifully believable book The World Without Us. The world is a feat of engineering. I plucked this book from the stack of Advanced Readers Copies that flood the store, read the first page, and then read the book straight through exclaiming to anyone who would tolerate me -- listen to this, and this, and this! In the movie The Day After Tomorrow Manhattan subway tunnels get flooded by unremitting rain over a period of just a few days.