DVD: National Geographic AFTERMATH: POPULATION ZERO

[polaris93]

I just watched National Geographic's DVD, Aftermath: Population Zero. Like the History Channel's Life After People, this production shows how the sudden disappearance of all humanity from the planet would progressively impact our world. It included some things that the History Channel production didn't, such as exactly why the cooling towers

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[mr_spock]

I saw the History Channel's version on a DVD I got from Netflix a while back. Like you, I thought it was good, but had a few problems, which you've done a good job of enumerating. THANKS!

[polaris93]

You're welcome. :-)

The thing is, we are just as natural as anything else alive, just as much a part of the living world and the universe at large as anything else is. There's this tendency too many people have of not seeing humanity as part of the living world, as not natural, but rather seeing us as something like a splinter or other wounding instrument in the body of the world whose removal would make everything go back to "normal." Can't happen. Remove us and, while countless species would rebound in numbers, others would go extinct, quickly or slowly depending on whether we were removed all at once, as in this DVD, or slowly, over time, so that life would have a chance to adjust to our decreasing impact on and involvement with the living world. I really, really, really wish there'd be a production that dealt more completely with that fact.