The World Without Us
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The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published b
The World Without Us
The abandoned city of Pripyat, near Chernobyl
An abandoned house in a state of collapse
Alan Weisman
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Alan H. Weisman is an American author, professor and journalist.
The World Without Us
…is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People…
Alan Weisman Portland OR, in 2025