Life After People Page #3
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Will hunt in what
Were once our backyards.
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One year into a life
After people,
Towns and cities
Are still recognizable.
But nature
Is beginning to reclaim
Her old turf.
one of the first
Great physical effects
In the absence of people
Would be the transition
Of the impervious surfaces:
The parking lots, the roads
Into places that supported
And then had an abundance
Of plant life.
any place
Where you have sunlight
That's hitting,
Some plant growth.
Little seeds
Are going to get stuck
In the cracks and so forth,
And these things
Are all going to start to creep?
Plants are wonderful that way.
They can destroy things
In matters of, you know,
A few years.
without humans
To remove them,
Weeds like dandelions
Infiltrate every crack
In the pavement.
Their remnants combine
With ever-spreading moss
And lichen
This sandy soil
Is poor in nutrients,
So only plants like clover
That can pull nitrogen
From the air
Flourish at first.
Formerly manicured yards
Morph into fields
For a white-tailed deer
Forage for food.
Wild animals have also begun
To find their way
Into abandoned cities.
Man's supposed domination
Over nature
Has proven to be quite tenuous.
The signs of our vulnerability
Have always been there.
this is an ailanthus tree.
It seems to enjoy rooting itself
In very inhospitable locations.
To crevices in buildings.
And when it does so,
It causes damage.
The roots expand,
And the expansive forces of that
Force out mortar
Of a facade.
If you get a lot of this
It could cause
Major, major damage.
Even manmade goliaths
Like hover dam
Aren't invincible.
To harness the power
Of this river
Took 21,000 men and five years
Of hard labor.
But one year after people,
Its 17 massive and seemingly
Indestructible generators
By an organism
The size of a human thumbnail.
The lake above the dam
Is infested
With an invasive species
Of mollusk
Called the "quake mussel."
This stealthy invader
From Eastern Europe
Had no natural predators
In North America
Other than the humans tasked
With scraping it from the grates
And pipes it colonizes.
To the inside wall of pipes
And they're very prolific.
They colonize
And can grow
On top of each other,
And eventually completely block
The diameter of a pipe.
the small pipes
To hover dam's generators
Make perfect homes
For these creatures.
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