
Life After People
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- 2008
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(0.00 / 0 votes)What would happen?
Disappeared?
[music]
At some point in the future,
This could be the fate
Of our planet.
This isn't the story
Of how we might vanish.
It is the story of what happens
The disappearance of humans
May seem like science fiction,
But eventually,
There will come a day like this;
A day when people
No longer walk the earth.
it's no great stretch
To imagine humans disappearing
From the face of the earth.
Every generation has its tales
Of Armageddon or apocalypse.
We're the first generation
That could,
By deliberate actions,
Cause its own doom.
What will life be like?
After people?
We're tantalized by our myths
About our own destruction,
But also tantalized
By the notion,
"hey, maybe it's the turn
Of someone else."
What will they do?
If we're gone?
What will the earth do?
When I'm gone?
It's the most natural question
In the world.
[alarm buzzing]
Time has run out for man.
Our hold on the planet is over.
Welcome to earth,
Population zero.
Within hours after we're gone,
Around the world.
More than 70 percent of power
In the United States
Is generated by the burning
Of fossil fuels.
the plant will only continue
To produce electricity
As long as the fuel
Takes to be consumed.
If there's no one around
To provide the new fuel
Into the generating plant,
Then it'll be quite quick
Before the lights
Start going out in cities
All over the world.
Nuclear power plants
Are unlikely to melt down.
The average reactor
Holds enough fuel
To keep running for two years.
But without humans
Consuming the power
Generated by the plant,
The reactors will automatically
Shut down into a safe mode
In as little as two days.
even wind generation
Can't last forever.
And lubrication
Of those bearings
In order to keep operating.
If there's no one around
To maintain the turbines,
The electricity
Doesn't get produced.
as generating plants go down,
Outages on the power grid
Contribute to a cascade
Of failure worldwide.
After a few weeks,
The planet is plunged
Into a deep darkness.
It has not experienced
Around campfires.
Perhaps, the last glow
Of artificial lights on earth
Will be seen
In the American southwest.
Hydropower plant
Takes little notice
Of the absence of humans.
Its source of fuel
Is virtually limitless.
at hover dam,
Our fuel supply
Is actually the water
In the reservoir in Lake Mead
Behind hover dam,
So as long as there's water
In the reservoir,
This power plant
Can keep running.
There's water in the reservoir
Keeps supplying the water
To the hydro turbine generators.
These generators
Are operating automatically
And that would continue
As long as all of the systems
Are functioning normally.
If I and my staff
Were to leave tonight
And not come back to hover dam,
Say just in the condition
Without us here.
After about a week,
Several weeks, several months,
Maybe even a couple of years,
Running normally.
In a life after people,
Would be one
Of the last power plants
Still running.
as the power goes out
Around the world,
Other systems
Are quickly beginning to fail.
beneath all the major cities,
There's a complex network
Of underground tunnels,
And these are there
For drainage purposes
Or for cabling purposes,
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