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“I absolutely love this book. It’s a wonderful hybrid of speculative nonfiction, nature writing, science. The World Without Us describes what would happen not if human society collapsed but if humans simply disappeared overnight. Say some disease wiped out all humans or, you know, an evil wizard snapped his fingers and humans disappeared. He moves meticulously around the world—through different environments, from cities to suburbs, different materials—and asks what would happen next. How long would it be before our warm, dry, comfortable houses deteriorated? Before trees grew up through the motorways and buddleia colonised the streets?” Read more...
The best books on The End of the World
Paul Cooper, Historian
