The World Without Us

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艾伦·韦斯曼,屡获殊荣的新闻记者,他的报道在《哈珀斯》、《纽约时报杂志》、《大西洋月刊》、《发现》和美国国家公共电台等地方发表或播报。他曾是《洛杉矶时报杂志》的特约编辑,现在新闻从业者团体Homelantls Productionsrp担任资深出品人,并在亚利桑那大学教授国际新闻学课程。《没有我们的世界》是他对一篇文稿《没有人类的地球》(发表于2005 年《发现》杂志)的扩充,被评选为“2006年度美国最佳科学写作”。

出版者:Thomas Dunne Books
作者:Alan Weisman
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页数:320
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出版时间:2007-07-10
价格:USD 24.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780312347291
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图书标签:
  • 环境 
  • 科学 
  • environment 
  • 美国 
  • Us 
  • World 
  • 小说 
  • Without 
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A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth

In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York’s subways would start eroding the city’s foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists---who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths---Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth’s tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman’s narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.

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人类可能经常在头脑中想象,如果没有鱼、没有鸟儿,这个世界会是怎样,但是是否曾经有一秒钟,你会想象如果这个世界没有人类会怎么样? 艾伦•韦斯曼无疑为我们提供了这样一个新奇的视角,而这样的一个视角才是本书最大的特点与贡献吧。看《三体》第三部结尾的时候,阅读充满...  

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总想构思一个故事,一个发生在人类灭绝之后,地球上新的智慧生物之间的故事。人类留下的遗迹是怎样影响到他们的生活的,他们怎么看待我们这些曾经在地球上生活过的生物。这本书详细地描述了人类离开以后地球的样子,内容很丰富,涉及很多方面。我们居住的房子怎么腐朽,艺术品...

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某天半夜,见老戴在Q上挂着,问候之,曰:“在看书。” 就是这本。 有一天,人类突然全体消失,地球会变成什么样子?历程如何?即是此书的内容。 粗略地翻过,很有些画面感,让我想起了一部电影——《时光机器》。 一部想像得很漂亮文字也很漂亮的书。可惜的是,并没激发我...  

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2007年12月14日下午2:00与作者北京国图(中关村南路)学术报告厅亲密接触吧。美国亚利桑那大学学者艾伦·韦斯曼受邀来京演讲,有兴趣就去参加吧。应该还不错。  

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《没有我们的世界》,这样一本书注定很吸引人。电视台找了些学者同作者座谈,偶尔看到了这个节目中的几个镜头。电视节目设定的讨论题目之一,大意是问如果人类不存在了,世界上谁是No.1,也就是说,谁会替代人类,成为世界的主宰?比如,狒狒会称霸地球吗?哦哈,多拽的话题。 ...  

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totally depressed. good for non-environmentalists. anti-feminism.

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角度选的蛮多,但是作为科普类的书写的不太生动,太多罗列jargon,看起来很烦躁

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It's an interesting thought experiment: what would happen if human race suddenly disappears from the earth overnight? It turns out that the earth is so powerful to repair itself and within a couple hundred years most of human traces will be eliminated. However, it is a little too detailed for my interest.

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totally depressed. good for non-environmentalists. anti-feminism.

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书里详细描述了如果人类消失 这个世界会变成什么样。各种植物怎么爬上屋子 一所房子大概需要100到150年就会彻底消失。瓷砖很难消融掉 可能会留作未来考古证据。各种动物会怎么占领城市 大型动物慢慢重新出现。作者描述的很细致 感觉到屋子一点点在你面前瓦解。超喜欢这本书想法奇特而有趣

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