What if humanity suddenly vanished from the Earth? Would our bustling cities, once full of life, become sprawling, metropolitan ghost towns? Would our highways, the crowded thoroughfares of a busy civilization, lay desolate and bare? If humanity suddenly disappeared, how would the Earth change in our absence? What would become of our planet a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand years in the future?
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Earth Without People
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