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...without us heaping more stuff on it every day, including stuff that we build and pump up our chimneys, and how it would deal with all the stuff we left behind. Part of that is fun - [seeing] what it takes for New York City to turn back into a forest. And the other part is all the toxins, poisons, carbon dioxides - how long would it take for all that to get reabsorbed, and for nature to really heal itself? - which is really the meat of this book: a backward way of looking at what we do by looking at what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Without Humans | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Plants would crack and pulverize cities and highways. Moose and wolves would return, and the forest would become dense again. Reading The World Without Us, you want to cheer at the springy resilience with which the earth bounces back from the damage humans inflicted on it. Global warming is our newest and most cherished apocalypse, but even the atmosphere will eventually rebalance itself, more or less. "I wanted to write a book that was intentionally not apocalyptic," says Weisman, who teaches journalism at the University of Arizona. "Apocalypse means destruction, and the whole world ends. In my book, I show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apocalypse New | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Harvard said this week that it had no plans to sell a graduate’s 99-acre gift to the Harvard Forest, after reports of a potential sale of the Hamilton, Mass., property drew concern from local environmentalists...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard: No Plans To Sell 99 Acres of Forest | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Harvard was considering selling the Hamilton experimental forest to the Trustees of Reservations, a Massachusetts preservation society, The Boston Globe reported last month...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard: No Plans To Sell 99 Acres of Forest | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Lisinichi Forest outside the city of Lviv one day in late December, Adolf Wislowski, 77, leaned on his heavy walking stick and described for Desbois how as a child he would climb a tree and watch Nazi soldiers shoot thousands of Jews; the killings lasted for about six months. Since Wislowski's school was close to the forests, he and his classmates kept careful track of the executions, observing closely how the Nazis led the Jews to the edge of the trees, then shot them in small groups. Near the end of the war, the Nazis ordered Jewish prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genocide's Ghosts | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

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