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                 (Alan Weisman in The World Without Us)

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Author Alan Weisman has a knack for the dramatic. In The World Without Us, subways are flooded, bridges crumble into the sea and wildlife reigns supreme once the world is relieved of pesky humans.
Despite the massive environmental destruction he’s witnessed firsthand, Weisman remains hopeful.  

More and more, every story becomes an environmental story, 

         Alan Weisman -May 2008 

To discuss the topic...
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http://ma-serendipity.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/and-no-winner-goes-topeoplequake-or-and.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFveyZT5hbE

His next book on amazon, 

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

was released in September 2013 by Little, Brown and Co.

Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful.
By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.

For a gloomy learning on our future history...

TEDx Talks by 2014 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxHpn83ScE

Sitka Symposium Faculty

watch the 3rd contribution:

Alan Wiseman talks about

 history’s most influential invention - the Haber-Bosch process -
and how we can solve the mess it made.