@article{313772,
      recid = {313772},
      author = {Weisman, Alan.},
      title = {The world without us /},
      publisher = {Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {viii, 324 p. :},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/313772},
}