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Aftermath: Population Zero
2008 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Stephen Milton
Aftermath: Population Zero investigates what would happen if every single person on Earth simply disappeared. Explore the interactive world without us.
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This documentary explores this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11zPNb-MFg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath:_Population_Zero
Aftermath: Population Zero - The World without Humans What would happen if, tomorrow, every single person on Earth simply disappeared? Not dead, simply gone, just like that. A world without people, where city streets are still populated by cars, but no drivers. A world where there is no one to fix bridges or repair broken windows…
I fear that a 'decent world war' nowadays may include nukes, so damage to the environment will be great. As an example, the dam that was destroyed in Ukraine and flooded a 'small area' (considering the planet-scale)(https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kakhova-dam-ukraine-russia-1.6872792).
Which (your post and my thinking of a response) reminded me of the series: Aftermath - Population Zero (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1264068/); I remember watching some series back in the day.. I think it's time to watch this again.
The History Channel had a 20 episode series called Life After People that looked at what would happen if every human suddenly disappeared.
The National Geographic had a similar, but only one episode program looking at that questions, called Aftermath: Population Zero.
I have a vague recollection of seeing something like this on one of Discovery's channels, too, but I may be mixing that up with an article in their magazine.
My recollection is that they all concluded that in the very long term (tens of millions of years), if some other species evolved intelligence it would probably not be able to tell we were here.
Some of the materials we used might survive, but things like glaciers in ice ages would grind them to a powder. The next intelligent species might notice these odd concentrations of unusual combinations of metal particles and powdered long chain carbon compounds, but there would be nothing to tell them it wasn't made by some unknown natural process.