Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us

[Ferre]

That makes for a nice title now doesn't it?

Ever since the sixties we humans have been aware that we screw up this planet in a bad way, we mess up the one ecosystem that we depend on ourselves (how smart), pollute our water, the air we breath and the earth our crops grow on with the result that even our food is contaminated with toxic chemicals nowadays and we are "used to it", people don't find it such a big deal as long as their food is "cheap" (I wonder how one measures that in relation with the cancers and other crap one gets from that food).

Anyway, it doesn't look like things are going to change so here is an article about how this world will look like after it recovers from us. :sqwink:

Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us - environment - 30 September 2009 - New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.300-posthuman-earth-how-the-planet-will-recover-from-us.html)

[Zap]

I agree with you, Ferre.
And we always hear about how we're going to "destroy the planet".

Humans are incapable of destroying the planet. We'll only destroy ourselves.
Even if we blow up every single nuclear warhead we have, we will die, Earth will survive.
It will go on without us, just fine.

Why we're so determined to make that happen is another story all together.

[Atom]

It seems to me that ozone layer depletion should be of primary concern. I think that if we humans are going to drink, ozone layer depletion should trump major asteroid collision, for example, as the underlying excuse.

[julien_simon]

I agree with you, Ferre.
And we always hear about how we're going to "destroy the planet".

Humans are incapable of destroying the planet. We'll only destroy ourselves.
Even if we blow up every single nuclear warhead we have, we will die, Earth will survive.
It will go on without us, just fine.

Why we're so determined to make that happen is another story all together.

look at the power of the weapons 100 years ago compared to now.

there is a chance that we blow up the planet with more powerful weapons in the future, or by destroying the ozone layer etc...