What if humanity suddenly vanished from the Earth? Would our bustling cities, once full of life, become sprawling, metropolitan ghost towns? Would our highways, the crowded thoroughfares of a busy civilization, lay desolate and bare? If humanity suddenly disappeared, how would the Earth change in our absence? What would become of our planet a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand years in the future?
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What would happen to Earth if humans went extinct?
https://www.livescience.com/earth-without-people.html
What could drive humans to extinction?
https://www.livescience.com/human-extinction-causes.html
What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-happen-if-every-human-suddenly-disappeared-dan-kwartler
Earth Without People
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/earth-without-people
Earth would be totally chaotic if humans suddenly disappeared
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-happen-if-humans-disappeared-2015-1
The World Without Us
http://worldwithoutus.com/about_book.html
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
https://www.britannica.com/place/Chernobyl-Exclusion-Zone
Number of Operable Nuclear Reactors Worldwide
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267158/number-of-nuclear-reactors-in-operation-by-country/
Ocean Absorb Almost 1/3 of Global CO2 Emissions
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/oceans-do-us-a-huge-service-by-absorbing-nearly-a-third-of-global-co2-emissions-but-at-what-cost
The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aau5153
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