While everybody is tucked into their latest Harry Potter book, there’s another recently released book that is creating a bit of a buzz beyond the land of wizards and midnight book buying binges.
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Sitting up on a shelf at your local book store, probably far away from the clutter of anxious book fans dressed up like Harry Potter, is a new piece of work that features a rather unique setting; that of Earth, without the burden of the humans.
That’s premise of Alan Weisman’s “The World without Us” described as an intellectual adventure into the future. It sounds like a book which should make for an interesting read this global warmed summer.
It could very well be a cautionary tale for those that won’t recycle, plan on having large families and found Live Earth to be a bore…
The tidbits that are being released about Weisman’s book, suggest that it is full of fascinating facts. Details such as the entire population of the world would fit in the Grand Canyon, trade places with the knowledge that once the humans are removed from the picture, only our bathrooms and steel pots and pans may remain of our time on earth. Weisman throws in such trinkets as that most of the world’s garbage landfill is made up of newspapers and that north of the 60th parallel Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
Salon has provided a fairly descriptive analysis of the book, which takes us from our past, through the present and into a future of which we will have no part in. It sounds like a very different kind of book than those that are churned out over the course of a year. One part scientific analysis, one part travelogue and one part social commentary, a unique combination that tweaks at our lazy ways to look to the future, a destination of which we apparently don’t want to take part in the heavy lifting for.
It sounds like the perfect bit of work for those that are looking for an entertaining and informative view of how we’re fouling our own nests.
You can check out the Salon review of the book from this link.
Salon has provided the heads up and Weisman has provided the not so early alarm and eventual blue print of our own destruction.
That’s premise of Alan Weisman’s “The World without Us” described as an intellectual adventure into the future. It sounds like a book which should make for an interesting read this global warmed summer.
It could very well be a cautionary tale for those that won’t recycle, plan on having large families and found Live Earth to be a bore…
The tidbits that are being released about Weisman’s book, suggest that it is full of fascinating facts. Details such as the entire population of the world would fit in the Grand Canyon, trade places with the knowledge that once the humans are removed from the picture, only our bathrooms and steel pots and pans may remain of our time on earth. Weisman throws in such trinkets as that most of the world’s garbage landfill is made up of newspapers and that north of the 60th parallel Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
Salon has provided a fairly descriptive analysis of the book, which takes us from our past, through the present and into a future of which we will have no part in. It sounds like a very different kind of book than those that are churned out over the course of a year. One part scientific analysis, one part travelogue and one part social commentary, a unique combination that tweaks at our lazy ways to look to the future, a destination of which we apparently don’t want to take part in the heavy lifting for.
It sounds like the perfect bit of work for those that are looking for an entertaining and informative view of how we’re fouling our own nests.
You can check out the Salon review of the book from this link.
Salon has provided the heads up and Weisman has provided the not so early alarm and eventual blue print of our own destruction.
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The choice to stay on that path or look for a new direction is as they say, totally up to us.
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