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A review by rsr143
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
5.0
Thought provoking!
I have often daydreamed about what life was like before we as humans were here, and what life would be like once we as a species are gone. When I was a kid I used to think about this. What would happen to the cities? What would happen to the towns? What would happen to my childhood home?
This book seeks to answer that question. I found it visually evocative. It has me thinking very differently around what it could be like to live in harmony with the environment, instead of in dominion over it.
I will never think of plastics, nuclear power, or the industrial complex the same again. Also, is “growth” and accumulation of stuff really as important as we make it out to be?
I have often daydreamed about what life was like before we as humans were here, and what life would be like once we as a species are gone. When I was a kid I used to think about this. What would happen to the cities? What would happen to the towns? What would happen to my childhood home?
This book seeks to answer that question. I found it visually evocative. It has me thinking very differently around what it could be like to live in harmony with the environment, instead of in dominion over it.
I will never think of plastics, nuclear power, or the industrial complex the same again. Also, is “growth” and accumulation of stuff really as important as we make it out to be?