Green Options » The Earth After Us http://greenoptions.com/tag/the-earth-after-us Posts tagged 'The Earth After Us' Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en What Will Earth Look Like in 100 Million Years? http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/26/what-will-earth-look-like-in-100-million-years/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/26/what-will-earth-look-like-in-100-million-years/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:05:15 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/26/what-will-earth-look-like-in-100-million-years/ South02 at Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license.)Did Alan Weisman’s book The World Without Us get your mind spinning about what our planet would look like if we just suddenly disappeared? Well, get ready to spin some more, courtesy of a new book by University of Leicester geologist Jan Zalasiewicz.

Titled The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, Zalasiewicz’s book explores what an alien geologist might be able to learn about our species from the geological record. And, like The World Without Us, it sounds like a fascinating — and sobering — read.

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