Life After People (featuring new author @biancajordan)

in writing •  8 years ago  (edited)

Imagine all people disappeared from the planet, just imagine the results.

Now I'm going to tell you what is going to happen after we are gone.

Several hours after humanity disappears lights all around the world will shut down since most power stations work on fossil fuel, without people there won't be anyone to charge them so they will stop .

48 hours after registering a sudden drop in energy consumption, nuclear power plants will switch to safety mode. Wind mills will keep working until the lubricant runs out. Solar panels will also eventually become useless due to dust deposits.

Nearly every region except for the ones supplied by hydro electric power stations will have their power cut off.

2 or 3 days after we vanish from the planet most metros In the world are going to be flooded because the pumps protected by underground waters won't work without people.

After 10 days pets locked at home will start dying of starvation and dehydration. Billions of chickens and millions of cows as well as other farm animals will be dead.

Those who manage to make their way out will enter a ruthless fight for survival.

Ref of content: http://channelvid.blogspot.co.za/2016/06/what-would-happen-if-humans-disappeared.html

A few weeks later there won't be any small dog breeds left anymore, big dogs will gather in packs and hunt down smaller breeds.

About 1 month after we disappear all cooling water I'm nuclear power stations will evaporate.
This will lead to serious explosions much stronger than Hiroshima and Chernobyl disasters. Billions of animals will die of cancer, but overall the planet will recover from the radioactive contamination rather fast and easily.

1 Year after we disappear strange stars will stars will start to fall from the sky. During our space history we took thousands of objects to our earths orbit. The highest satellites will fall after many years.

After 25 years all roads and side walks will be covered in vegetation. Where there are plants there are herbivorous animals and where there is prey there is always a predator. The surviving dogs will cross with the wolves that come to the form of cities. Without us the air will become much cleaner, In some cities the visibility range will become several times longer, cities like Dubai and Las Vegas will be buried in sand. The desert will take what belongs to it, so will all of nature.

After 300 years metal constructions such as the Eiffel Tower or steel bridges will start to break since for all these years there won't be anybody around to paint and protect from erosion.

Steel rods and armed concrete will bloat up to three times of their initial thickness and the last tall building will go down. Vast swamps will reappear and hundreds of birds and animal species will return to their unfairly taken home.

Large marine animals will also be very glad not to see us and with the absence of humans whales will thrive.

This is what modern cities will look like after 500 years without people.

After 10 000 years the only reminiscing that people were here some day will be the remains of a few stone constructions, among with the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of china. Mount Rushmore is said to be there for hundreds of thousands of years.

In 50 000 000 years, plastic bottles and pieces of broken glass will be the last traces of our civilization.

In another 50 000 000 years they will be gone as well. Our planet is quite sturdy and can get rid of all our trash.

If after 300 000 000 years or later there will be a new rational species, they might not even notice there was a civilization before.

So.... Our planet can perfectly do without us but we can't without her.

Save The Planet !

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When Humans Disappear

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This appears to be an edge-case that is debatable. Much of this text is taken from the video itself which can be seen as providing value in the form of a "transcript." But, IMO, this needs to be made clear to users since I came with the assumption that this was originally written by @biancajordan

thank you . the author too those lines to just give a stable foundation for the post will edit a ref in now for it . hadnt noticed it before thank you :)

Is it @biancajordan's blog though? If not, then the entire article needs to be in quotes...

how do I edit that bit into a quote?

All problems are busy being sorted out on this post :) thank you

simple upvote just to get it to the top

all issues on this post has been fixed and approved thank you.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Great! I have my old matte painting on "Moscow after people" =)

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as always my friend every post you write is a goal! :) congrats

Watched this episode years ago and it still intrigues me :-)

Thanks for the post, it was an interesting read. I've always wondered whether we are not the first civilization to inhabit earth. Whether what you describe above has already happened at least once.

The good news for steemit is :

whales will thrive

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Ok, does this remind anyone else of Planet of the Apes where he sees the statue of liberty?

So I guess the earth doesn't need us at all and will clean up all the mess in due time. Earth will surely be no place you want to be without people though! Interesting article-very thought provoking!

I like your blog - Keep up the great work! -upvoted and followed

Life after people may be very little life indeed, given the long-term impacts of anthropogenic climate disruption. I believe that we are headed for one of the greatest mass extinction events in our planet's history. Something will survive, and evolution will carry life forward into new vistas, but it seems to me that the possible realities are far more drastically different that this article would suggest.

Life after people starts every time I step into a room where its just me. If I was not there than it never happened. So I can never know what it would be like without me, as I have always and will forever be.