What If Humans Suddenly Disappeared?

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? Sources: What would happen to Earth if humans went extinct? What could drive humans to extinction? What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared? Earth Without People Earth would be totally chaotic if humans suddenly disappeared The World Without Us Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Number of Operable Nuclear Reactors Worldwide Ocean Absorb Almost 1/3 of Global CO2 Emissions The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007 Founder / Director: Peter Schumaker Chief Editor:Tristan Reed Science Editors: Dr. Caroline Palmer-Puschendorf (PhD) Dr. Sean McKenna (PhD) Original soundtrack by Joseph McDade