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Written largely as a thought experiment, it outlines, for. Without some drastic change, by the time our 12 year old daughter is old enough to draw her pension in 2050, the worlds population is predicted to reach 9 billion people over four times the number on the planet when her grandfather was born just years before. The main characters of this non fiction, science story are. Click download or read online button to get the world without us book now. The world without us, book by alan weisman paperback. The world without us is a oneofakind book that sweeps through time from the moment of humanitys future extinction to millions of years into the future. This is the theme of the 2007 book the world without us by university of arizona professor alan weisman and the history channel documentary series life after people based on weismans book.
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