The Resource The world without us, Alan Weisman
The world without us, Alan Weisman
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The item The world without us, Alan Weisman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- Journalist Weisman offers an original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders, and paleontologists, he illustrates what the planet might be like today if humans disappeared. He explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 324 pages
- Contents
-
- Prelude : A monkey koan
- A lingering scent of Eden
- Unbuilding our home
- The city without us
- The world just before us
- The lost menagerie
- The African paradox
- What falls apart
- What lasts
- Polymers are forever
- The petro patch
- The world without farms
- The fate of ancient and modern wonders of the world
- The world without war
- Wings without us
- Hot legacy
- Our geologic record
- Where do we go from here?
- Art beyond us
- The sea cradle
- Coda : our earth, our souls
- Isbn
- 9781905264032
- Label
- The world without us
- Title
- The world without us
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan Weisman
- Subject
-
- Cultura material
- Djur och människor
- Erde
- Etnobotánica
- Het fictieve
- Human-animal relationships
- Human-animal relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Humanekologi
- Aarde (planeet)
- Material culture
- Mensch
- Mensheid
- Människan och naturen
- Naturaleza -- Efecto de los seres humanos
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Relaciones hombre-animal
- Toekomstverwachtingen
- Zukunft
- Material culture
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Journalist Weisman offers an original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders, and paleontologists, he illustrates what the planet might be like today if humans disappeared. He explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Weisman, Alan
- Dewey number
- 304.2
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GF75
- LC item number
- .W455 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Nature
- Material culture
- Human-plant relationships
- Human-animal relationships
- Human-animal relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Material culture
- Nature
- Aarde (planeet)
- Mensheid
- Toekomstverwachtingen
- Het fictieve
- Erde
- Mensch
- Zukunft
- Humanekologi
- Djur och människor
- Människan och naturen
- Naturaleza
- Cultura material
- Etnobotánica
- Relaciones hombre-animal
- Label
- The world without us, Alan Weisman
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-311) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prelude : A monkey koan -- A lingering scent of Eden -- Unbuilding our home -- The city without us -- The world just before us -- The lost menagerie -- The African paradox -- What falls apart -- What lasts -- Polymers are forever -- The petro patch -- The world without farms -- The fate of ancient and modern wonders of the world -- The world without war -- Wings without us -- Hot legacy -- Our geologic record -- Where do we go from here? -- Art beyond us -- The sea cradle -- Coda : our earth, our souls
- Control code
- ocn122261590
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781905264032
- Lccn
- 2007011565
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o122261590
- (OCoLC)122261590
- Label
- The world without us, Alan Weisman
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-311) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prelude : A monkey koan -- A lingering scent of Eden -- Unbuilding our home -- The city without us -- The world just before us -- The lost menagerie -- The African paradox -- What falls apart -- What lasts -- Polymers are forever -- The petro patch -- The world without farms -- The fate of ancient and modern wonders of the world -- The world without war -- Wings without us -- Hot legacy -- Our geologic record -- Where do we go from here? -- Art beyond us -- The sea cradle -- Coda : our earth, our souls
- Control code
- ocn122261590
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9781905264032
- Lccn
- 2007011565
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o122261590
- (OCoLC)122261590
Subject
- Cultura material
- Djur och människor
- Erde
- Etnobotánica
- Het fictieve
- Human-animal relationships
- Human-animal relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Human-plant relationships
- Humanekologi
- Aarde (planeet)
- Material culture
- Mensch
- Mensheid
- Människan och naturen
- Naturaleza -- Efecto de los seres humanos
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Relaciones hombre-animal
- Toekomstverwachtingen
- Zukunft
- Material culture
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