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Earth with no humans. We have in all probability all thought about it at one time or another. And cheers to recent trends towards the post-apocalyptic, specifically in Hollywood, we have the graphic images that give us an suspicion of the aftermath.
But how precisely would this formidable but hypothetical future occur? At this moment, a video traces the timeline of this future, starting with the minutiae of the first hours and days after humans disappear, and leading all the way up to a radical forecast for 300 million years later.
This long perspective of the aftermath of an instantaneous mass disappearance of the human race, raises one root question: ‘Can our planet do perfectly well without us while we depend entirely on it?’ Would the incident of a total human apocalypse spell a happy future for the planet?
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