Alison Reads

A fascinating book that starts with the premise that all people have suddenly disappeared and then examines various ecosystems to see what is likely to happen over the next ten or fifty or thousand or ten thousand years. By detailing the proliferation of plastics in the ocean and the long-lived residue of nuclear reactors, the author shows how much humans have poisoned the planet. Evolution will eventually cope with the poisons but the world will be very different in the future. Hopeful in some chapters, horrifying in others, this is a thought-provoking book.