The World Without People : What Would The World Without People?

Out of the possible books from the list offered to us, “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman caught my attention by its title. I thought that a title like this would suggest a very fascinating premise, which turned out to be the case with this book. The premise was intriguing – what would the world look like if every single person living on this Earth would suddenly disappear. Being a person, who is always curious about the things to come, I decided that this book would be a great read not only for the sake of doing the book review assignment, but also for the general knowledge that I would receive. I have never read a book that would talk about the history of humanity, our environment, and what effect our presence on our planet has in regards to future consequences. Because of that, I did not have many expectations on the type of information and material offered in Weisman’s book; but I really wanted to learn what kind of a perspective or perspectives Mr. Weisman would take, when approaching a topic so complex as this.

Air pollution causes great damage to the environment. These damages include acid rain, eutrophication,haze, ozone depletion, global climate change, etc. "Acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids."Acid

“Factories produce tons of emissions each day, but much of the emissions stay in the city and produce smog” (Global Warming 101). Smog is a combination of atmospheric pollutants and fog. This can cause health issues and if concentrated enough can kill people. “Carbon dioxide can also last for over a century before it dissipates” (Global Warming 101). With more pollutants being emitted into the atmosphere, global warming may never be slowed.

It is inevitable that humans will become extinct, but how? This event can be labelled many things such as: the apocalypse, Armageddon, judgement day and the rapture. What will cause this event? This event is likely to be caused by a pandemic, either natural or genetically engineered. There are many diseases that have already infected a significant amount of the human population. All it would take is a slight evolution in a strand of a certain disease or a certain strand to be engineered for it to become lethal. The pandemic that is most likely to happen is smallpox pandemic. At the moment, smallpox is not very deadly to a human due to all the vaccines and medical technology but if smallpox were to mutate or be

Trees and plants play a large role in cleaning pollutants in out atmosphere. They trap pollutants in and release clean oxygen for us to breath. Planting more trees in a polluted industrial area can improve local air quality. Other pollutants can be carried by winds and simply settle and seep into the ground. They can also attach to water vapor, which then falls to the ground as precipitation. This is commonly referred to as acid rain. These processes do happen slowly. We, as a planet, are spewing more pollutants in the air than these natural process can handle, which has led to an ever increasing ozone layer.

Air pollution are impacting the environment, and it is imperative that laws are enforced to help build and sustain a better air quality. Air pollutants can be in the form of particulate matter which can be very harmful to our health. Stimulation to our eyes, nose, throat, and breathing infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia are all short-term effects. You’re head might hurt, you might want to puke, and you might have allergic reactions. Short-term air pollution can put people with asthma and emphysema in a worse condition. Long lasting breathing disease, lung cancer, heart disease, and even damage to your brains, nerves, livers, or kidneys are all long-term effects. If you’re exposed to air pollution continuously, it would affect children’s lungs and may complicate medical conditions for the elders. Some people argue and deny the bad air problem. They claim that pollution may actually be good for the Earth. The hazy weather caused by pollution has made plants far more productive when it comes to scrubbing greenhouse gasses out of the air. Pollution has turned plants into better carbon dioxide processing machines. But this is bad for our own health. Pollution is causing global warming which leads to massive ice land melting. Polar bears and other animals that live there are losing there habitats and even dying. Melting ice could also lead to more sea water which would bury some cities or land near the coastal areas. There is already a tremendous amount of people on this planet. If our land decreases, and our population continues to increase, some people would have to start living on another planet; therefore, making it a priority to address the areas

Emissions from coal fired power plants contribute to global warming, ozone smog, acid rain, regional haze, and perhaps most consequential of all from a public health standpoint, fine particle pollution.

This how they create pollution, factories that are operated by humans are producing fumes that are harmful to the earth and us. We create pollution by littering the ground with garbage and operating planes, machines and other pollution producing things. Another thing that is impacted is the photosynthesis, I we don’t have clean and healthy air to breath so we would soon become extinct and also the animals too.

Air pollution could be very harmful to us as humans, it could effect us and also it

to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuel from our cars, coal, and natural gases found in

Among its short-term health effects, according to cleanhouston.org, are reduce ability to breathe, inflammation of the lung tissue, as well as irritation of the nose and throat, and damage to the respiratory cells. If well this problems do not represent a life-threatening problem for most of the people, children and the elderly, who do not possess a very strong respiratory system. It is been proved that pollution has effects on the children illness already existing in the elderly can be aggravated by pollution, which can put their lives on severe

After one year, the effects still remain the same. Several citizens lead to cancer because of the bad environment or the toxins in the air. People around the area don’t know what to do with the environment, they’re afraid to go outside.

There have been different diseases caused by air pollution from lung cancer to breathing problems such as asthma and in worse cases death. Pollution is caused from dangerous chemical experiments, smoke from factories and daily human activities. Two of the many ways to eliminate air pollution is by recycling things like paper, plastic, cardboards, cans. This saves energy and the production emission is reduced. Also by informing people on ways they can individually help their communities by doing simple acts such as turning off electrical appliances when not in use. It's our responsibility to take care of mother

In Alan Weisman’s book The World Without Us, he gives us an insight of how the world would be like with if the human influence never transpired. Now that the humans have invaded the space of natural wilderness, how would the environment react with the humans being gone, leaving everything else behind? Nature is a natural force that the human species try to control, and without the human influence nature would eradicate most of the man made creations. In Weisman’s book, he shows us how powerful nature truly is.

Air pollution is very unfavourable for the environment; especially for the water cycle. In the event that the air is polluted enough, it could form acid rain which could end up being very harmful. This is because the acid could harm water from rivers, lakes or seas, which strongly affects both animals and humans; water being a requisite for living.