for thousands upon thousands of years throughout the tall tales of human
history the final hours of our species have long been lamented upon will we
disappear in a blaze of cosmic Hellfire where we shuffle from this mortal coil
after the choking devastation of a nuclear winter or will our life-giving
Sun decide to spit forth an earth scorching solar flare and snuff out this
brief candle that we want called humanity whichever form the apocalypse
would take it need not matter though because what we're concerned with is how
our planet earth would fare after as species suddenly disappeared so I guess
you better fight now hello Internet what's going on and once
again welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube life's
biggest questions as per usual up you listen body flow and voice Jack Finch as
today we curious ask the question what would happen to earth after humans
disappear
leaning together for the Jews amongst you that particularly moody and
atmospheric scene was of course of Marlon Brando's relentlessly brilliant
performance in Francis Ford Coppola legendary cinematic work Apocalypse Now
which is quite fitting really and of course Colonel Kurtz himself just so
happened to be reading the equally apocalyptic poem The Hollow Men written
by TS Eliot in 1925 that particular poem ends with the final lines this is the
way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper which can only mean one thing
ah it's the end of the world as we know it but unfortunately we don't feel fine
in this given hypothetical situation because as you may have already been
mentally alarmed by the title of this particular life's biggest question the
end of civilization has sadly already occurred however now that we're on the
subject of artists throughout the ages that have mused upon the end of humanity
we can begin our question in parentheses by addressing another contemporary comic
the legendary George Carlin who when it comes to the end of the world has an
incredibly important bit to share planet isn't going anywhere we are exactly
George thank you and in that particular stand-up show mr. Carlin outlined the
fact that our fair planet Earth been around for a little over four and a
half billion years during which time our pale blue dot has been through so many
cataclysmic catastrophes they turned itself quite a few stripes in the
process solar flares volcanoes worldwide floods continental forest fires cosmic
rays millennia long swaths of ice ages gigantic asteroids and that was before
we even came along at one point our planet was literally a boiling soup of
magma it's safe to say that this wonderful place that we currently call
our home is quite resilient you see the thing is we're the ones that are fragile
because unlike planet Earth we can't recover and we've only been around for a
fraction of a second compared to the vast ancestry about planet but as is the
case in this hypothetical situation we've tragically blown our only chance
like a kid who left their home work till the last minute but now that we're here
we may as well take a look around and see what the planet has in store now
that humanity has disappeared and the good news is that despite our towering
monoliths of engineering and architecture now that we are out of the
equation the planet would eventually become a much better place for the
surviving species of the animal kingdom initially though things would be a
little sketchy as those affirmation infrastructures of Industry would have a
tendency to well kind of blow up within the first few days as systems of
infrastructure that require constant human control would inevitably meet
there unsupervised end Subway's across the planet would begin filling with
water as a regulatory plumbing systems that keep most of them below the water
table free from flooding would break down and begin to fail within a week
most water cooling systems in nuclear reactors would run out of fuel setting
off a chain of explosive vents that would become so catastrophic that if we
were still alive then it's good night Vienna all over again not only that but
all of those satellites currently orbiting the globe yeah they're going to
be plummeting back down to Terra Firma within a few days which will only add
fuel to the fire given the fact that there are approximately 4,000 987
currently in orbit watch out because the sky is indeed falling drop their ass for
it crash not only that but the risk of a petroleum fuel
days of Hellfire is incredibly likely with all of the oil and gas reserves
currently on our planet all it would take is a single one of these highly
likely explosive events to trigger a continental wildfire take a look at the
qat oil fires for example where over 700 oil
wells were set fire to during the Persian Gulf War that blazed
relentlessly from January 1991 up until November the 6th releasing so much smoke
into the sky that have resulted in a 2% annual global emissions increase of
carbon dioxide on our planet now imagine that on every continent yeah not a
pretty picture in fact with our demise and subsequent
disappearance without the capability of maintaining these fragile systems of
energy and power we could very well do catastrophic damage to many many of the
surviving species and that's even without addressing the fact that there's
currently 300 million tons of plastic in our oceans and now there's no one around
to clean up yeah things are looking pretty bad but here comes the hubris
guys because as we said previously Earth is a resilient planet and although the
demise of our civilization may very well cause many further catastrophic fallouts
given a long enough time Planet Earth will begin to heal within several years
perhaps the most successful species will be out avian friends who without a
massive interference from electromagnetic and radio signals would
be free to populate unhindered perhaps reaching gigantic flocks of up to 1
billion birds within 5 or so years taking into account the apocalyptic
devastation war across the planet most buildings that weren't made from metal
would likely already be crumbling although it would take perhaps as long
as 300 years for large metallic structures to begin
falling down so if any alien species did manage to pop in for a visit at least
they could find comfort in knowing that someone used to live here there would
still be clear apparent signs of our civilization for at least another
thousand years without intervention but at that point who knows what type of
wild and frenzied biosphere at planet Earth would have cooked up just a deal
with the apocalyptic treasure trove that has species left behind eventually there
would be only a few specific landmarks remaining to flagpole our significance
on this planet the channel tunnel between England and France would likely
still be there we'll just take you know a bit of
digging to find it the same applies to Mount Rushmore whose presidential
likeness would look at and weathered but still evidence of our civilization
nonetheless perhaps even the Great Pyramids of Giza would still be standing
given the fact that they have already withstood the endless sands of time and
may well serve as a reminder to the next sentient species on our planet that we
humanity once existed you see George Carlin was right eventually our planet
will be fine she'll need a little bit of healing and a tant recalibration she
will probably have to enjoy a few more ice ages to get things back into
shipshape but planet Earth will continue to spin nonetheless you see it's
humanity that can't withstand the end of the world what there we have it our long
and short answer to the question what would happen to Earth after humans
disappear eventually she will put herself back on course and be like whoa
those humans there are tried to warn them well what do you guys think you
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