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If human beings are extinct, how will the Earth look after one year? Essi, 11 years old, Michigan
Have you ever wondered how the world will be if everyone suddenly disappeared?
What will happen to all our purposes? What will happen to our homes, our schools, our neighborhoods, and our cities? Who will feed the dog? Who will cut the grass? Although it is a common topic in movies, TV programs and books, the end of humanity is still a strange thing to think about it.
But as Associate Professor of Urban Design – Anyone who helps cities and cities to plan what their societies will seem – from my job sometimes to think about such expectations.
A lot of silence
If humans just disappear from the world, and you can return to Earth to find out what happened after one year, then the first thing you notice will not be with your eyes.
It will be with your ears.
The world will be calm. And you realize How many noise people make. Our buildings are noisy. Our cars are noisy. Our sky is noisy. All this noise will stop.
You will notice the weather. After a year without people, the sky will be more clear, clear air. The wind and rain will clean the surface of the earth. all Smoking fog and dust made by humans I will go.
home sweet home
Imagine that first year, when your home sits by anyone.
Go inside your home – and I hope it is not thirsty, because there will be no water in your tap. Water systems require a fixed pump. If there is no one in public water supply Machine management that pump waterThen there is no water.
But the water that was in the tubes when everyone disappeared will remain there when the first winter came – so at the first cold point, the cold air was frozen in the tubes and exploded.
There will be no electricity. Power stations will stop working because no one does Watch them and maintain fuel supplies. So your home will be dark, without lights, TV, phones or computers.
Your home will be dust. In fact, there is dust In the air all the timeBut we do not notice that because air conditioning systems and our heaters are blowing. While moving across the rooms in your home, you keep dust on movement as well. But as soon as all of this stops, the air inside your home is still the dust and the dust will settle everywhere.
The grass in your courtyard – grows and grows until it lasts for a long time and stops growing. New herbs will appear, and they will be everywhere.
Many plants that you have never seen will be rooted in your annihilation. Every time the seed tree falls, a little sheet may grow. There will be no one to pull or cut it.
You will notice a lot Tinnit errors around them. Remember that people tend to do everything in their power to get rid of insects. Sprinkle the air and the ground with a disorder spray. They remove the habitats of the defect. They put screens on the windows. And if that does not work, they raise them.
Without people doing all these things, insects will return. They will have free curb from the world again.
On the street where you live
In your area, he will do creatures They wander, look and wonder.
Firstly, the young: mice, the rat, raccoon, scratching, foxes and canals. The latter may surprise you, but North America He was rich in hotels.
Large animals will come later – deer, wolves and cross bear. Not in the first year, perhaps, but in the end.
With no electrical lights, the natural world rhythm will return. It will be the only light of the sun, moon and stars. Night creatures will feel satisfied because they have recovered their dark sky.
Fires will happen frequently. Lightning Tree And set fire to the brush, or hit homes and buildings. Without people, these fires will continue until they burned themselves.
About your city
After only one year, concrete objects – roads, fast roads, bridges and buildings – will look like the same.
Count, for example, after a decade, and the cracks in them had appeared, with small plants coincided with it. This happens because the Earth is constantly moving. With this movement the pressure comes, and with this pressure the cracks come. In the end, the roads were so broken that it would look like broken glass, and Even trees will grow through them.
Bridges with metal legs will slowly rust. Packages and nails that carry bridges up will also rust. But large concrete bridges, and The highways between the states, also concrete, will continue for centuries.
The dams and dams that people possess Built on rivers and tables in the world It will wear. The farmer will return to nature. The plants we eat will begin to disappear. It is no longer a lot of corn, potatoes or tomatoes.
Farm animals will be easy to bears, wolves, wolves and leopards. And pets? Cats will become brutal – that is, they will become wild, although many large animals will be emptied. Most dogs will not survive, too.
Like ancient Rome
In a thousand years, the world you remember will remain mysteriously known. Some things will remain; This depends on the materials they made, the climate in which they are, and a clear luck. A residential building here, a cinematic theater there, or a dilapidated commercial center, will stand as stability for a lost civilization. The Roman Empire has collapsed more than 1500 years ago, however you can see Some remains to this day.
If there is nothing else, people suddenly disappear from the world will reveal anything about the way we deal with Earth. We will also show us that the world that we have today cannot stay without us and that we cannot survive if we don’t care about it. To keep work, civilization requires – like anything else – continuous maintenance.
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This article has been republished from ConversationAn independent, non -profit news organization brings you facts and trusted analysis to help you understand our complex world. Written by: Carlton Bassianand Iowa State University
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