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?

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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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