Life After People
What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking special "Life After People".
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comment #3125 Usian
This is a reply to comment #1847
Seban, this documentary was made to make us see how insignificant we are. Further more it shows to what great lengths we went to carve the world around us so it would suit our needs, and how fast nature recovers from us.
reply | permalinkIt's very humbling if you ask me...
comment #2411 Haricots
spacebunny, better in what sense?
reply | permalinkI'm not sure of who said it first, but a world without people would be like a room filled with all of the greatest works of art with no one to appreciate it.
comment #2408 spacebunny
Everyone was so afraid of the end of the world, the apocalypse, armageddon, whatever you want to call it. This is evidence that the world will be a better place once we are all gone...except for the starving puppies part.
reply | permalinkcomment #2401 hmm
this document is showing how nature is strong is sad for us, but nice facts and nice ideaa .
reply | permalinkcomment #1995 ABM
Will it really matter?
reply | permalinkcomment #1847 Seban
Very cool and everything but I don't really see the point; since as far as I can work out this would only happen if all humans just disappeared without notice and NOW, rather than in the distant future (where the world would probably have been different).
reply | permalinkSo unless someone can explain the relevance of this program, I think it's a bit of a waste of time.
comment #1340 just me :)
That documentary is awsome !!! X3 !!!
reply | permalinkI think they were really accurate with what may happen when human beings are no longer on earth... its also sad because you can see how much damage we've done to nature with our interference in it, so i just hope that things that this documentary showes us become a reality in the near future, for nature's sake ( really hope so =D )
comment #1056 Arkane
holy shit i just watched the whole thing this is amazing one of the best documentaries ive ever seen
reply | permalinkim impressed
5/5 stars
comment #169 Rune
hi can sb help me figure out why i cant play this video. when i click on play it writes: "deze video is momenteel niet beschikbaar"
reply | permalinkcomment #159 Ken
Hope it will happen except for me and 2 or 3 babes, hehehe
reply | permalinkcomment #71 Umbreona
An interesting look at what could be the future of Earth if some disaster from space, man, or nature took out the human race. Also an interesting look at how nature goes about reclaiming what humanity has attempted to cut off from the rest of the world.
reply | permalinkHowever, there is one point which I find both incorrect and slightly irksome. That they would call Wolves a "terror" to Humanity when to the contrary Wolves for a large time were helpful to Humans and joined them in hunting which is where we got the domestic Dog. Many ancient peoples had great respect for the Wolf as a majestic or sacred creature right up to the Romans. A healthy Wolf (without rabies) is not even a threat to a Human and will not attack unless heavily provoked by a Human. The only way in which Wolves are "terrors" to Humans is that they will gladly eat our livestock if it is not properly kept away from them (which does not require killing the Wolves at this point) because it is such easy prey. Aside from that the Demonizing of the Wolf is quite inane and really needs to be put to an end.
comment #56 Michael
HUMAN EXTINCTION WHILE WE STILL CAN!
reply | permalinkcomment #28 Jerry
wonder what was before us and how they died. if any of there stuff may be around. and, wouldnt the stuff we've left on the moon, wouldnt that stay in contact? to become a mysterious look at the next life that may see it?
reply | permalinkcomment #26 rg
so sad...
reply | permalinkcomment #20 brandone
pretty interesting this one
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