Life After People (History Channel)

Buy This Item Life After People (History Channel) by A&E HOME VIDEO  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 8-31-2008     If humans were suddenly to disappear, what would happen to our planet – the structures we've built, the everyday items we take for granted, domesticated and wild animals, plants, trees? What would become of the things that define our species and leave our mark on this Earth?<p> Visit the ghostly villages surrounding Chernobyl (abandoned by humans after the 1986 nuclear disaster), travel to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for abandoned towns that have vanished from view in only a few decades, then head beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals.<p> HISTORY® takes you on an amazing visual journey in LIFE AFTER PEOPLE, a though-provoking adventure that combines movie-quality visual effects with insights with insights from experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology, and archeology to demonstrate how the very landscape of our planet will change in our absence. Reader Reviews Right up front this documentary states that they won't address how people disappear/die off--but that would seem to have a profound effect on what happens afterwards. There is no discussion of the six and a half billion, or so, bodies that would be left behind after a massive die off--unless there was a large-scale alien abduction or some gradual dying off that allowed for most of the bodies to be disposed of, there would a lot of bodies left exposed and available as food to all sorts of species. Also the cause of our extinction could have a major effect on the aftermath: a major climate change, ecological disaster, or nuclear disaster large enough to wipe out all of mankind would likely take out a few more species and have major effects on what occurs afterwards. This show describes a fascinating story of how most of our man-made structures would gradually disappear--which, depending on how humankind disappears, might be moot--most of them might be destroyed when mankind is destroyed.

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