The World Without Us

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  The premise of the book was interesting and intriguing. I was curious, though, how the author was going to fill nearly 300 pages with only the deconstruction of man's designs. He doesn't - he fills the pages with a series of admonitions against what we've done with and to our environment.

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  The premise of the book was interesting and intriguing. I was curious, though, how the author was going to fill nearly 300 pages with only the deconstruction of man's designs. He doesn't - he fills the pages with a series of admonitions against what we've done with and to our environment.

  It's not that the wrist slaps are necessarily unwarranted, but in opening that door (rather than sticking to 'the world without us'), Mr Weisman ignores a fundamental fact. We're here. Yes, things change if humans disappear, and that's an interesting thought experiment. But we're here and not likely going anywhere soon - we've engineered our environment to support and sustain high-density populations. So... now what?

  Mr Weisman would have had a shorter book had he stuck to the premise on the cover, but he chose, instead, to introduce the lecture on environmentalism (or lack of). In doing so he offers nothing in the way of a thought experiment on addressing it outside of rolling back time. With that departure, Mr Weisman left me behind and a great idea became a so-so read.

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  ― Andyberschauer said on Sep 12, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Or, Us Without The World...

  This is an interesting concept to do a research and see how the nature takes over all the artificial artifacts. In another sense, this would tell us how human destructs the nature; if we don't consider ourselves is part of it. There are many places in the world where are absent of human traces that ... (continue)

  This is an interesting concept to do a research and see how the nature takes over all the artificial artifacts. In another sense, this would tell us how human destructs the nature; if we don't consider ourselves is part of it. There are many places in the world where are absent of human traces that supply for this research. There will always be species that eventually dominates the ego system, sometimes at the cost of others.

  The book doesn't make any suggestion how we should learn from this research, besides I am starting worrying my house for the speed of eroding.

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  ― artie said on Mar 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1905264038
• ISBN-13: 9781905264032
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Pub date: Jul 05, 2007
• Also available as: Paperback and Audio CD
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书, Libri Italiani

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