Life After People, the program that shows what happens to our infrastructure after humans are gone, will be shown on the History Channel on Monday at 9 PM. I can't wait to see it. It uses Chernobyl, a city now abandoned for over twenty years, to illustrate how rapidly infrastructure can decay.
Oh yeah, just in case you do happen to be the last person on earth, the website provides a fair bit of information on how to survive. Being able to sew is a big plus evidently.
In the same vein, I'm currently reading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. This is a last man on earth book written in 1949. Ok, he isn't the last man on earth but people are few and far between. The main problem the hero, Isherwood, has is convincing survivors to do something besides live off the leavings of mankind. That, and the rise and fall of populations of ants, cattle, wolves, mountain lions etc.
BTW, doesn't London look pleasant in its decay (photo above from Life After People website)?
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