TV isn't the greatest here, unless you like having about 7 Discovery Channels, and then they all show the thing you want to watch at the same time. But good news is they repeat late at night. So I taped a show off the History Channel called "Life After People'. It was pretty interesting.
The premise was, what would happen to all the infrastructure and animals if we just vanished. There wasn't any mention of our decaying bodies, so I guess we were all zapped up by aliens.
Small house pets, like those small toy dogs, they don't do so well, and die out within a week or so. Either from starvation in the house, or by other animals. There were some surprizes though. Mice and rats, after the initial binge off all the leftover food, don't do so well, as they now have to go out into the wild to look for food. Owls do well though. Zoo animals were a toss up. If they can get out of the zoo, the big cats do very well (this was all taking place in North America). Cockroaches in the northern climates don't make it past the first winter, but southern neighbours do just find, plus no one wants to count out the cockroach.
The interesting thing was they went to the Ukraine, and to an abandoned city due to Chernobyl. The forests and wild life in that area in the past 20 years have made a major come back, and the wild boars, deers, etc, are the most densely populated there in all of Russia.
So the lesson really from the entire show, was the planet would do just fine without us.
The premise was, what would happen to all the infrastructure and animals if we just vanished. There wasn't any mention of our decaying bodies, so I guess we were all zapped up by aliens.
Small house pets, like those small toy dogs, they don't do so well, and die out within a week or so. Either from starvation in the house, or by other animals. There were some surprizes though. Mice and rats, after the initial binge off all the leftover food, don't do so well, as they now have to go out into the wild to look for food. Owls do well though. Zoo animals were a toss up. If they can get out of the zoo, the big cats do very well (this was all taking place in North America). Cockroaches in the northern climates don't make it past the first winter, but southern neighbours do just find, plus no one wants to count out the cockroach.
The interesting thing was they went to the Ukraine, and to an abandoned city due to Chernobyl. The forests and wild life in that area in the past 20 years have made a major come back, and the wild boars, deers, etc, are the most densely populated there in all of Russia.
So the lesson really from the entire show, was the planet would do just fine without us.
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