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如果人类明天消失,世界将变成什么样子?突然有一天,人类在地球上消失了,一夜之间,地球依然转动,人类却不复存在。这个难题就出自《没有我们的世界》。作者艾伦·韦斯曼在书中描述了这一令人恐惧的未来世界:人类消失两天后,管道的拥堵,使城市成为泽国。七天后,城市循环系统陷入瘫痪,紧急备用能源消竭。一年后,由于通讯塔的灯光不再闪烁,高压电网冷却,成千上万的候鸟飞回来了;依赖于人类的寄生虫开始绝迹……
If humanity disappears tomorrow, what will the world look like? Suddenly, one day humankind disappears on Earth, and overnight the Earth is still turning, but mankind no longer exists. This problem comes from “without our world.” The author Alan Weisman describes in this book the frightening future of the world: two days after the disappearance of mankind, congestion in the pipeline made the city a Zeal. Seven days later, the urban circulatory system was paralyzed and emergency backup energy was exhausted. A year later, thousands of migratory birds flew back because the tower's lights were no longer flashing and the high-voltage grid cooled down; human-dependent parasites began to disappear ...