“Life After People” — talk about a Debby Downer…
If you’re looking for two hours of depressing television, check out “Life After People” on the History Channel. It predicts what would happen to earth if humans were extinct. It starts with “the day after” and ends with 10,000 years from now.
The gist of the show is that everything mankind has produced in the past 5,000 years would start decaying as early as 25-50 years from now, and in 1000 years, cities would crumble, suburbs would be forests, and wild animals would rule the world. Basically just like the first half-hour of “I am Legend” without Will Smith. At the 10,000 year mark, there would be no evidence that mankind ever existed on the planet.
While they did mention that paper would disintegrate within a couple hundred years, they never mentioned laminated paper. So I’m going to print out these blog posts and laminate them. That way the wolves, cockroaches, and termites can enjoy some reading material.
-al
