What would a world without humans be like? | BBC Ideas
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- What would happen if there were no humans on planet Earth? What if all humans disappeared? What would a world without people be like? In a world without humans, what would happen to animals and nature? What would survive? What would thrive?
With scientific advice from the OU’s Philip Wheeler.
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So this whole world wide genocide is all planned in advance, right down to hypothesis about what it will be like.
The History Channel had a show based on the same idea, "Life After People". But it took them 20 hours to say what you did in 3 minutes.
hahaha
Ted-ed did it better
@@octopuss1918 Ted-Ed is great. Even better than Ted Talks. 😉👍
both of them are based on the book "the world without us" by Alan Weisman.
Without giving credit btw
@@aldoushuxley5953 Ooooh! Is it a good book?
This is very sad but it just shows how much damage we can do. I really like the idea of having more plants just around in houses, like a grass carpet or a jungle in your shower.
it's propaganda for the most part. They dress it up as "Humanity bad" but in actual fact all of what was stated here can be achieved with Humanity still being around. The majority of climate change is due to our technology as in aircraft, cars etc. we change that, we reduce OUR hand in climate change. We can(and have) design cities, towns, villages where the wild can live alongside us, again it isn't hard.
@@SimplySammyK same energy as
"My wife isn't a bad person because she could stop cheating on me"
@@reekerman1012 you're an incel stop talking
@@SimplySammyK bullshit. you are the propaganda here
@@SimplySammyK oh you really think that humans know how to behave responsible ?
Have we done it so far ?
Your thinking is la la land!
This brings a feeling of joy to me for some reason
Smae
Same here!
it would be absolutely beautiful
A world without humans ???
You have a healthy 🌎🌍🌏 ✨🙏🏼✨
Ull have a dead planet
Should be less China, less USA, less India, less Russia, the world will be fine..
until the big one hits and wipes out the earth again for thousands of years, humans may be able to redirect or blow it up before it gets to Earth..
the key is not no humans, but rather balance.
We are basically an invasive species.
When rabbits destroyed australia, it was not the fault of "evil rabbits". It was just a lack of balance.
Similarily, we have killed off anything threatening to us. Now, we basically have absoulute power over nature (at least all other animals), and they are only alive, because we currently feel like letting them stay.
We are like rabbits in australia
Aldous Huxley no we dont nature is overpowering us
Who is watching this during the COVID-19 lockdown?
Mitali Bhasin :- what you think ? Are we heading towards this scenario?
Me
Me, in Oregon 6/29/2020
me
Me. 😿
Let's face it:
we've become way too dependent on organization-dependent technology
Well I mean yeah
it's been pushed on us by marketing and major historical ee diots and the millions of sheep that followed him. Like that steve and his iphone. a useless pos gadgetech.
no more brunt forest for oil! no more animals killed and tortured for humans consumption, clean air.
Very true
What about animals that die miserably from carnivorous animals
Those animals would then statve to death and if they managed to break free and run outside, they would just get hunted down.
Nature is merciless. Animals that have been domesticated will violently die, with or without us.
Well atleast other species doesnt kill as much as we humans do,human race kills about more than 100,000,000,000,000different kind of creatures a year dumping trash to nature destroying the ozone and so much more
@@klarahaplova9098 nature is not merciless ....it just is. ... we would not have evolved on a baron planet
I wish I could've observed the world without humans, it would've been absolutely incredible.
is this dude alien?
I said the same thing 30 years ago 👍 Everything is even worse now 😞
I'm crying over this narration 💗
Somewhat beautiful. Better than mad humans killing or threatening people.
We would have animals killing or threatening each other instead.
I say this a lot, intelligence makes us dumb.
If many of the trends happening now do not change, humans *will* go extinct.
I disagree. Humans should set foot on Mars within the next years. There will be people living out there and thus no extinction here on Earth will erase us from history. That's assuming that people will live on Mars independently from Earth supplies.
@@User-jr7vf That is a HUGE assumption.
Earth will explode at this climate change's rate
The only chance of survival for our beautiful planet 🌎 is if humans are gone. Sad but true.
Yeah, I thing humans forget is that we are the 'prey'
If we never existed ahh wonder what earth would look like
It's true for the most part, but not completely true.
You need to understand that it's a strong sentimental statement rather a factual one. There's a difference.
Considering humans have been the worst biological children of nature, but nevertheless nature still needs a complex multicellular organisms with enhance consciousness than birds or animals. I'm not saying it has to be humans, it could be any species.
But there are things that beyond the control of nature. Nature needs someone to figure out and protect the planet to as much extent as possible.
Billions of years ago , when a meteor hit the earth, it's not just the dinosaurs that had gone . The earth was almost about to be destroyed, 80% of the all species had gone extinct.
Mother nature was badly wounded..
It's just my humble opinion, I would be too arrogant to say nature needs us. Nature definitely needs species like us.. with better morality I guess to protect the planet from extra terrestrial threats.
I mean let's be real.
If next week, a meteor is about to hit the earth.
Humanity would be planet's last hope. As we don't have Superman.We have to be the Super-people on earth .Humans(not animals,birds or plants) would be the first on the planet to get the news and to figure out countermeasures and try our best to protect the planet up to highest possible extent (if there any) .
We are created by the elements of nature. Our bones and flesh are all mother nature's flesh and bone.
Mother nature loves us unconditionally and provide everything for us.
But we have failed to be good children to her.
And right now she's crying yelling at us and saying those exact words out of anger, despair and the feeling of betrayal.
Bc we really hurt of mother's feelings
But we have to be better children to her to fulfill our real responsibilities as human beings ,letting go of our greed ego evy and selfishness. We need to redeem ourselves.
If you hurt you mum by saying cuss words and she yelled at you by telling you to get lost and she's better off with or without you. You wouldn't just go far away from her forever and commit suicide to prove her point . Lol You get what I'm saying.
@@kenzelukabarphukan200 Research - Human Impact on the Environment
Kind of nice to see what New York and Las Angeles could look like.....
I still think that we are meant to hunt and gather.
Basically, cities are zoos without fences.
Look at the animals in the zoo. They have all the food they want, their lifes are safe, they have nothing to worry about.
And yet, they are often stressed, fat, and have serious mental problems.
We, animals meant to live in small groups, live in cities with millions, everything painted grey, with a very limited amount of freedom, completely unnatural.
Just because their are no little green men taking pictures of us outside of the cage, we somehow think that we are free
@@aldoushuxley5953 "I still think that we are meant to hunt and gather." It all depends on race, each race has a different mentality and therefore a different culture. Some are pack animals, other are like herds, some are nomadic, some are not, some are agrarian, some are industrial, some are combinations of the former.
And that is the very reason races should not be mixed.
@@aldoushuxley5953 Completely agree
Planet earth without human beings sounds like Heaven to me.
humans includes you though, and your friends, and your family
@@aldoushuxley5953 o.k?
@@californiamiami8100 does it still sound great?
Everyone that you love being dead?
@@aldoushuxley5953 we won't be entirely dead but are bodies with turn into dust...sooo we can still talk ;)
@@californiamiami8100 how can we talk without vocal cords? some electrical signals between dust particles? hmm
i want to live there.
Alexa define "contradiction in terms"
- assuming your'e a Human...?
Probably a paradise.
it would never be able to forget us !! gives goosebumps
get a hold of your arrogance. There's nothing special about the great ape first section. You need to get goosebumps for all the other species we made extinct.
@@ericastier1646nothing is special about us? There's literally never been a single animal with our level of intelligence.
@@hmmm2706 That is human hubris it's not a truth. Intelligence as we arrogantly define it puts us on top. But if we define intelligence as harmonious skillful living with minimum destructive impact on our environment then we rank low. Intelligence isn't high rate self and other s species around us destruction.
@ericastier1646 This is the most unintelligent thing a human has ever said. You literally just redefined the meaning of intellect. That is nowhere near close to what intelligence is. You're the one arrogantly defining things.
Can animals discover fire? Can they create philosophy? They're just not smart enough.
intelligence
/ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒ(ə)ns/
noun
1.
the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
You're a simple Google search away from ceasing your ignoramus speeches.
@ericastier1646 if we define "right" as a TH-cam account with an orange profile picture, and "wrong" as a TH-cam account with a pink profile picture, then I'm right and you're wrong.
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Some new species would evolve, others would go extinct. Just as happened before humans appeared.
everything peaceful and real
Like it or not, the answer is a whole lot better.
I wish this would happen, soon
This content is great; however, the music does frighten me. @@
3:22 that's so true!
Without Humans it looks haunted terrifying at the same time
No more garbage and nukes. No cars No nuclear waste and power and vice versa. No garbage from hats scarves shirts pants and shoes. No need. No cars phones alarms backpacks everything in Amazon or Walmart. No packaging or packages... No plastic. No lighters cigarettes cigarette buds. No soda cans bottles bottle caps No paint paint thinner paint brush paint clothing or shoes No extra paint for color or layers. Exhaustive list....unfortunately not. We are garbage. No coffins
It would be awesome
It is like when you watch the movie "WALL-E"
Amazing video
Thanks!
Who else when she said "every single human on the planet has gone" thought, except me?
Wow that was eerie! I thought temperatures would keep dropping until everything freezes over, into a new ice age.
eventually it would. The earth has seen much more extreme times.
Just takes some time
@@aldoushuxley5953 lol it sometimes baffles me that us (people in general) seem to forget time for us in general as a construct is so minuscule in comparison to the earths own time. Billions of years are going to pass and the earth will still be here. We won’t.
If humanity ceases to exist, then there would be actual peace for all of us.
This is when the aliens harvest us for our stem cells and bone marrow
Thank you .my thoughts has been properly answered 😁
"Earth would survive?" It, "would never be able to forget us?" Who do we think we are? After a few million years, a geological blip, I doubt if our brief time on Earth would be evident as anything more than a band in the dirt.
Jordan Peterson: "Define human. Define gone..."
We Saved the Earth and Destroyed it....
Thanos should of of snapped twice
Do you copy ted ed?? I found a similar video to this in Ted ed's yt channel
It is based on the book "the world without us" by Alan Weisman.
They don't give credit apparently...
Literally, nothing will remember humans unless another human evolves again that would leave him with wonder.
Safe to say the world would be so better off without us and nooo it will happy to see us gone!!! So it will forget us in a heartbeat! Easily!
Beautiful
What about the case when humans didn't exist at all? How would the earth be then? That's an interesting case
It would be waaaaay much better
It would be as nature intended
Well,we saw how clean and peaceful the streets were within a few days into initial Lockdown! Everyone was saying how wonderful it was. Then as it was slowly lifted all the filth & litter started polluting the towns & cities 😥😡😡😡 I just cannot understand how anyone can blatantly drop their personal rubbish on a street when there are plenty of bins every few hundred yards. When we saw the disgusting sights on the beaches it just left me sad and angry! If certain rotten individuals can be bothered to take full bottles and cans and packages filled with food on the outward journey,why on earth can they not take it away with them when it is weighing a fraction of what it was? Selfishness and ignorance is all they were taught! Humans ARE the scourge of this planet. Those who complained about Lockdown were doing so only because they couldn’t carry on being the disgusting and antisocial cretins they are.And again they have returned to “normal” life is like one big rubbish tip!
I opposed the harshest lockdown measures, but am far from the people you describe. In fact, I go out of my way to pick up other people's litter, and frequently write to the Council about broken glass litter.
I’ve never met a person that was a human.
that is still an arrogant sentence. You're an ape, remember that, a 'great' ape, still an ape.
There you go
I would b happy if it will happen... Humans now considering themselves owner of this planet with the help of science and technology but no one is above mother nature.. Humans do all cruelties on other living creatures especially on mute souls.... In the name dairy meat leather in the name of religion... Hence i want earth shd b free from humans
I don't want anybody to get hurt but the world be such an amazing place if half of our population will dissapear, but I am talking about those greedy people.
Fantastic.
I would not worry about it. there will be, The day of the Lord. And he will create a new world where he will set up his kingdom . There won't be no more, evil, suffering, diseases, wars ,destruction catastrophes ,darkness ,death. An eternal new land where there will be with Christ where there love peace happiness beauty eternal life. God bless ♥️
As a religious kind of person, the planet is beautifully working despite having more than one bug. Us humans that is. Much sooner I see the real problem go away, but I hope we never go to that scenario.
It would be thriving
How plants will grow without co2?
humans only produce a small portion of the CO2 on earth.
Most comes from dead animals and plants (you store more carbon as you grow, and it just gets released back into the air when you die), as well as other natural sources, such as volcanoes etc
@@aldoushuxley5953 Indeed, with all human activity, industrial and otherwise, we might produce 0.001% of all the worlds CO2 emissions. Just barely enough to sustain the balance of nature for as the world grows (between 0.75 to 1 inch per year), the need for CO2 rises but the available CO2 in nature declines.
CO2 is a global cooling, not a global warming gas. If CO2 drop substantially, the world will become unbearably hot and the oceans will release more CO2, which in turn would cause a slow cool down, if sufficient, would take about 800 years to bring it back to tolerable temperatures.
Just like heaven
I’d like to know more about the evolutionary lines created by the nuclear plants failing!
The plot of dr stone
This is us and our legacy...if we keep going then way we are going...
and it's not us that are creating the destruction it is only 3% of us that we let leading us : mainly the parasites printing the currency and dictating to government which new way to destroy more nature and enslave more human to serve them. Litterally if we could eradicate that 3% every 100 year, that would change everything. Most people are well intentioned but some want power at all cost, they are the problem and they're only a small group.
Yeah that's like the abandoned city of Pripyat
Even though it 'll be a tragic story which definitely anticipate the future😮
Waiting
the question is without human being how can you capture all of this pictures 📸
Chernobyl?
Without humans, other predators would evolve and dominate the world like dinosaurs and humans did.
except they won't destroy the earth's habitat for other animals
That is much better then in this goddamn Asian Philippines 🇵🇭
How i got here. I just watched the documentary 'Seaspiracy' and it got be so angry with this thing called humanity. For a moment i thought humanity must have been God's worst mistake, that the world would have been better without God having created humans. Then again i thought of how silly my thought is :) and decided to check online if anyone has ever thought the same :)
It's true for the most part, but not completely true.
You need to understand that it's a strong sentimental statement rather a factual one. There's a difference.
Considering humans have been the worst biological children of nature, but nevertheless nature still needs a complex multicellular organisms with enhance consciousness than birds or animals. I'm not saying it has to be humans, it could be any species.
But there are things that beyond the control of nature. Nature needs someone to figure out and protect the planet to as much extent as possible.
Billions of years ago , when a meteor hit the earth, it's not just the dinosaurs that had gone . The earth was almost about to be destroyed, 80% of the all species had gone extinct.
Mother nature was badly wounded..
It's just my humble opinion, I would be too arrogant to say nature needs us. Nature definitely needs species like us.. with better morality I guess to protect the planet from extra terrestrial threats.
I mean let's be real.
If next week, a meteor is about to hit the earth.
Humanity would be planet's last hope. As we don't have Superman.We have to be the Super-people on earth .Humans(not animals,birds or plants) would be the first on the planet to get the news and to figure out countermeasures and try our best to protect the planet up to highest possible extent (if there any) .
We are created by the elements of nature. Our bones and flesh are all mother nature's flesh and bone.
Mother nature loves us unconditionally and provide everything for us.
But we have failed to be good children to her.
And right now she's crying yelling at us and saying those exact words out of anger, despair and the feeling of betrayal.
Bc we really hurt of mother's feelings
But we have to be better children to her to fulfill our real responsibilities as human beings ,letting go of our greed ego evy and selfishness. We need to redeem ourselves.
If you hurt you mum by saying cuss words and she yelled at you by telling you to get lost and she's better off with or without you. You wouldn't just go far away from her forever and commit suicide to prove her point . Lol You get what I'm saying.
@@kenzelukabarphukan200 One of the most thoughtful statements I've read so far. Humans, or similar species would be as much a part of nature as any other. Nature would cull the humans IF they could ever reach a critical population, but as it stands now, the entire global population could live comfortably in the state of Texas if it were possible for all the races to live together which they are not able to, biology and nature once again plays a role.
@@kenzelukabarphukan200 Research - Human Impact on the Environment
Near-everybody wishes for this here - only you DO know it means wanting your own DEATH, right?
And to quote ANOTHER well known BBC figure .. "Some of my best friends are Human..!"
Looks lovely
the fact even when we are not here the earth will continue suffering from the things we did, and because well in the reality we are not gone, we are just adding up more trash and cuts into the core :/
The world could forget about us if another dwarf planet slammed into it.
As that would turn the entire world into a molten one, resetting all of life's progress back to zero.
Possibly creating a 2nd moon in the process.
The movie I am legend showed this
Prophets work for BBC 🌏👍🏾
No, planning department of world genocidal psychopaths.
Ahhhhh that would be heaven.
A world without humans?
Now no one will be doing cruel sports such as fox hunting and bullfighting.
yeah, instead wolves will kill bulls and foxes. Much better
Aldous its better than treating animals as sports
@@karyunohokko5746 And animals don't? Ever watch animals in nature playing games with their prey? Or even your house cat for that matter? Its all about the sport!
@@aldoushuxley5953 they doing it for survival, not for entertainment
@@archravenineteenseventeen I doubt that makes it much better for the animal getting killed
Anyone watching this because of Dr Stone?
Did human came before tree or after tree?
What we did to this earth except war and suffering. You might think the world war 3 would not happen but it will I hope I'm dead in that time
a good world
Interesting......
Skippity
Seems like media have answers to everything…
The race I am not allowed to name has plans for everything and they openly mock us.
The elites will reap what they've sown!
Better than a thought experiment 🙂 REALITY is that world would be better without any of you in it. Thankfully this is exactly what's going to happen 😃
are you saying to kill myself?
Don't worry, the earth will return to this state eventually. Humans aren't lasting another 4.5 billion years. I give us a million tops. This gives the earth plenty of time to thrive and flourish without us until the sun explodes.
You mean "us" right..?
Or am i talking to an (intellitgent) vegetable? A Smart Hippopotamus?? Or Monsieur Mallah ???
Living is pointless TBH
Better
Actually this planet earth not for human we are coming some experiment!
Wow, even long after we're wiped out, Mother Earth would still suffer from our nuclear plants, construction debris, and plastics.
❤
The Nature of the Earth is condmned *without* us because soon or later a great disaster will ocurr and all forms life will vanish. It could be probably because our sun will not be forever or it could be something else before.
We should limit the population of our species
Exactly! I suggest: 1 CHD per family = benefits, secnd CHD = no benefits, third CHD you pay on top. People would have less children automatically. But also our society's social skills would suffer if everyone grows up as a lone CHD
searched this up cuz i was watching a vegan teacher video
One can only dream. But eventually it will happen.
Accurate?, no way of knowing
Since people are intruders of the Earth to begin with and Earth was formed long before people showed up wouldn't the Earth end up being a better place??? No other planets have life form that we know of and are doing just fine. also this you would think would be the end of Covid 19 and its variants. Answers please!!!!!
Our mark being pollution... 😅
It would be better
Agreed buddy
@California Miami see you in the day of earths destruction
It's true for the most part, but not completely true.
You need to understand that it's a strong sentimental statement rather a factual one. There's a difference.
Considering humans have been the worst biological children of nature, but nevertheless nature still needs a complex multicellular organisms with enhance consciousness than birds or animals. I'm not saying it has to be humans, it could be any species.
But there are things that beyond the control of nature. Nature needs someone to figure out and protect the planet to as much extent as possible.
Billions of years ago , when a meteor hit the earth, it's not just the dinosaurs that had gone . The earth was almost about to be destroyed, 80% of the all species had gone extinct.
Mother nature was badly wounded..
It's just my humble opinion, I would be too arrogant to say nature needs us. Nature definitely needs species like us.. with better morality I guess to protect the planet from extra terrestrial threats.
I mean let's be real.
If next week, a meteor is about to hit the earth.
Humanity would be planet's last hope. As we don't have Superman.We have to be the Super-people on earth .Humans(not animals,birds or plants) would be the first on the planet to get the news and to figure out countermeasures and try our best to protect the planet up to highest possible extent (if there any) .
We are created by the elements of nature. Our bones and flesh are all mother nature's flesh and bone.
Mother nature loves us unconditionally and provide everything for us.
But we have failed to be good children to her.
And right now she's crying yelling at us and saying those exact words out of anger, despair and the feeling of betrayal.
Bc we really hurt of mother's feelings
But we have to be better children to her to fulfill our real responsibilities as human beings ,letting go of our greed ego evy and selfishness. We need to redeem ourselves.
If you hurt you mum by saying cuss words and she yelled at you by telling you to get lost and she's better off with or without you. You wouldn't just go far away from her forever and commit suicide to prove her point . Lol You get what I'm saying.
@@kenzelukabarphukan200 Research - Human Impact on the Environment
But all pets would die..
But the other animals species would thrive
@@Witchergerlad true
@@Witchergerlad but God made us in his image not animals🙂
It's true for the most part, but not completely true.
You need to understand that it's a strong sentimental statement rather a factual one. There's a difference.
Considering humans have been the worst biological children of nature, but nevertheless nature still needs a complex multicellular organisms with enhance consciousness than birds or animals. I'm not saying it has to be humans, it could be any species.
But there are things that beyond the control of nature. Nature needs someone to figure out and protect the planet to as much extent as possible.
Billions of years ago , when a meteor hit the earth, it's not just the dinosaurs that had gone . The earth was almost about to be destroyed, 80% of the all species had gone extinct.
Mother nature was badly wounded..
It's just my humble opinion, I would be too arrogant to say nature needs us. Nature definitely needs species like us.. with better morality I guess to protect the planet from extra terrestrial threats.
I mean let's be real.
If next week, a meteor is about to hit the earth.
Humanity would be planet's last hope. As we don't have Superman.We have to be the Super-people on earth .Humans(not animals,birds or plants) would be the first on the planet to get the news and to figure out countermeasures and try our best to protect the planet up to highest possible extent (if there any) .
We are created by the elements of nature. Our bones and flesh are all mother nature's flesh and bone.
Mother nature loves us unconditionally and provide everything for us.
But we have failed to be good children to her.
And right now she's crying yelling at us and saying those exact words out of anger, despair and the feeling of betrayal.
Bc we really hurt of mother's feelings
But we have to be better children to her to fulfill our real responsibilities as human beings ,letting go of our greed ego evy and selfishness. We need to redeem ourselves.
If you hurt you mum by saying cuss words and she yelled at you by telling you to get lost and she's better off with or without you. You wouldn't just go far away from her forever and commit suicide to prove her point . Lol You get what I'm saying.
@@kenzelukabarphukan200 okay but you didn't have to send me a whole essay, plus this was a long time ago
If only that happened
Then I supposed that the 🌎 is a sentient planet. 😆