The World Without Us

salt dome storage caverns, 133

Gülyaz, Murat Ertugrul, 108–9

Gura waterfall (Kenya), 71

H.M.S. Beagle, 112

Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey), 102–5

Hanford Nuclear Reservation (WA), 206

Hardie planks

deterioration of, 17

Hardy, Alistair, 114–15

Harpenden (U.K.), 150–51

Rothamsted Manor, 151, 151–53, 153–57

Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA), 148–49

Hawaii, 200

Hawkins, David, 223

Haynes, Vance, 63–64

HCFCs (hydrochlorofluorocarbons), 204–5

heavy metals, 221

and plant life, 29, 31, 158, 159

Hemlock Forest (New York Botanical Garden), 28–30, 32

Bronx squirrels and, 29

High Line (elevated railroad bed, NYC), 27

high-tension power lines

danger to birds, 193–94

Hilty, Steve, 198–200

Himmelstein, Paul, 247–48

Hopi people, 120

horse latitudes (North Pacific Subtropical Gyre), 121, 122, 123–24

horses (Equus)

devolving, Przewalski’s, 190

reintroduction of in America, 71

striped, 50, 71

survival of, 232

houses

without humans, 15–18, 18, 19–20

Houston

fate without humans, 143

geology, 134–35

petroleum/petrochemicals industry and, 132

Ship Channel, 134, 135

storage tanks, 133–34

Hudson, Henry, 22, 33

Huff, Bill, 179–80, 181

Hughes, James, 244

human extinction, 3–4

biological attack, 239

from disease, 61, 239–40, 242

from infertility, 240–41

religion and, 270, 270–71

VHEMT (Voluntary Human Extinction Movement), 241–43

human race

Australopithecus africanus and, 48, 69, 101

Clovis people, 61–64, 58–60, 80

Cro-Magnons and, 101

evolution of, 44, 47–49, 68–69

lice and bacteria, dependancy on, 235–36

population explosion, 271–72

robots and computers as replacements, 244

Hussein, Saddam, 139

Hwa Gye Sah Temple (Korea), 189

Ice Ages, 39–40

and animal extinctions, 61–62

and plant life, 61–62

Ik-Tae, Jin, 183

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant (NY), 36

insect infestation

and plant life, 29, 31, 32

insects

insecticides, 74

mosquitoes, 129–30

International Energy Agency, 216

International Wildlife Museum (AZ), 66

iron

deterioration of, 18

in steel, 246

ISP, 135, 140

Istanbul (Turkey)

Blue Mosque, 103

construction standards in, 103–5

Hagia Sophia, 102–5

subway, 105

See also

Turkey

Jackson, Jeremy, 258–59, 261–62, 265

Jagiełło, Waładysław, 10, 12

statue of, 21–22, 247

Jefferson, Thomas, 53–55, 181

Jericho, 101, 106

Johnston Atoll

as nuclear test range, 266–67

Jong-Hak, Park, 183

Jong-il, Dear Leader Kim, 187

Jordan River, 42

Kazulka, Heorhi, 14

Kenya

Aberdares moors, 71–73

cut flowers exports, 73–74

Gura waterfall, 71

Kikuyu people, 71, 72–73, 73–74

Lake Turkana, 70

Mau Mau Rebellion, 72–73

Mzima Springs, 77

Mombasa, 77

Mount Kenya, 72

Tsavo, 76–78

Olorgesailie depression, 68–71

without humans, 74–74

Kenya Professional Safari Guide Association, 84

Khufu pyramid, 172–73

Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, 251

Kikuyu people (Kenya), 71, 72–73, 73–74

Mau Mau Rebellion, 72–73

Kingman Reef, 255–58, 259, 260, 261–62, 263–64

Kiribati, 258

Kiritimati (Christmas) (Line Islands), 259–61

Klem, Daniel, 196–97

Knight, Les, 241–43, 244

Koonyi, Kasi, 83–84, 85–86

Korea

CCZ/DMZ, 183–85, 185–88, 188–90, 191

division of, 184

Korean Federation for Environmental Movement, 183–85, 185–88

Ksiazek, Thomas, 239–40

kudzu, 274

Kurzweil, Ray, 243–44

Kyung-Won, Kim, 183, 188–89

Lake Alajuela (Panama), 177

Lake Baikal (Siberia), 42

Lake Gatun (Panama), 176, 177

dam, 179–80

Lake Tanganyika (East Africa), 42–43, 51

Gombe Stream, 45–47

Lake Turkana (Kenya/Ethiopia), 70

landfills

newspapers in, 119–20

tires, 130–31

See also

plastic particles; trash and garbage

Lapland longspur, 193–94

Lapta (Cyprus), 98

Lawes, John Bennet, 151, 151–53, 154, 162

lead

in the ecosystem, 158–59

Leakey, Louis, 44, 49, 58, 68

Leakey, Mary, 44, 68

Lehmann, Johannes, 167–68

Lenni Lenape people, 23, 32, 33

Leslie, John, 241

Lewis, Meriwether, 54

Li-Tai-Po, ix

Library of Alexandria (Egypt), 248

lice

dependency on humans, 235

Life Magazine, 119

Lincoln, Abraham, 181

Line Islands, 258–59, 264–65

as munition dump, 258–59

lions

and slavery, 77

Litoptern (Macrauchenia patachonicd), 59, 59

Lomberg, Jon, 248–51, 252, 269

London, 150

without humans, 165–66

Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM), 206–7

Lovelock, James, 168, 271

Maasai people, 43, 79–81

and AIDS, 85–86

and cattle, 82–83, 84–86

McElroy, C. J., 66

McGrath, Steven, 157–59, 159

Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 251

Mahler, Gustav, ix

Maine

cultivation, effects of, 146–47

stone walls, 146

Mannahatta Project, 22–24, 30, 32–33

Marathon, 135

Marburg virus, 239–40

Marconi, Guglielmo, 252, 254

Martin, Paul, 55–58, 58–59, 61, 63–64, 65–67, 80–81, 271

Mastodons, 56

Mathews, Mike, 236–37

Mau Mau Rebellion, 72–73

Mayan civilization, 223–24, 226, 227–28, 228–29

agriculture, 227

archaeological excavations, 224, 227

burials, 227

collapse of, 224–25, 228

cruelty of, 226

vegetation overrunning, 225, 226

wealth, 227

Mehringer, Peter, 65

Mellaart, James, 106

meltdowns, 212–13, 213–14, 214–16

mercury

plants reengineered to absorb, 159

Meso-Americans

European diseases and, 61

Mesozoic Era, 230–31

metal

wiring and plumbing, remains of, 38

moa

extinction of, 63, 191

moa-nalo

extinction of, 192

Molina, Mario, 204

monkeys

red-tailed and blue monkeys, 45–46

See also

primates