Our planet is beautiful and amazing. Breathtaking mountain landscapes, endless seas, flowering valleys, sand dunes, lights of megacities glowing at night, quiet villages. But at any moment, a global epidemic, war, alien invasion may occur, and people will disappear forever. What will happen to the Earth then?
WILD THING FROM THE WILD FOREST
In the form in which the Earth appears today, it will exist for a few hours. After a while, the lights will go out everywhere. Cities, towns, villages - everything will plunge into darkness.
The metro stations will be among the first to become unusable - they will simply be flooded with water, which is usually pumped out by a person.
Many power plants run on gas, dry steam and hydrothermal steam. But who will supply fuel, fill them? The power plants will stop. Then the turn of nuclear power plants will come. For the first 48 hours, they will go offline and then shut down. A nuclear power plant operating without failures is considered an environmentally friendly "machine" for energy production. But as soon as standby diesel generators are activated, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen and carbon oxides, hydrocarbons and fly ash will be released into the air. This will lead to environmental poisoning.
Following the stations, other power generation facilities will also be shut down - wind turbines, solar panels, turbines on ships and airplanes. All regions that are illuminated by nuclear and thermal power plants will be de-energized. As a result, domestic animals (about 1 billion pigs, 1.5 billion cows and 20 billion chickens, etc.) will be left without food. A deplorable fate awaits animals in zoos and private apartments. Most of them will not be able to get out of their pens and will die. After their death, mass decomposition of corpses will begin, there will be a terrible stench. A bunch of other animals will come running to the smell - rats, mice, which will fight each other for prey for some time. Some pets will get out to freedom, but not all will be able to survive in the struggle for existence. The majority will fall prey to stronger competitors. The worst will be for decorative breeds of dogs and cats, completely unsuitable for survival in the wild. All these terriers, poodles, pomeranians, pugs, lapdogs, persians and sphinxes will be the first to fall in an unequal struggle with stray dogs and cats. After a few weeks, there will be no trace of decorative domestic animals. Large breeds of dogs - shepherds, mastiffs, greyhounds, great Danes and wolfhounds - are more likely to survive. They will begin to huddle in flocks and hunt for various trifles. Feral cats and other domestic animals will “graze” in the deserted cities as long as there is food, and then they will run to the forests. After a few weeks, there will be no trace of decorative domestic animals. Large breeds of dogs - shepherds, mastiffs, greyhounds, great Danes and wolfhounds - are more likely to survive. They will begin to huddle in flocks and hunt for various trifles. Feral cats and other domestic animals will "graze" in deserted cities as long as there is food, and then run into the forests. After a few weeks, there will be no trace of decorative domestic animals. Large breeds of dogs - shepherds, mastiffs, greyhounds, great Danes and wolfhounds - are more likely to survive. They will begin to huddle in flocks and hunt for various trifles. Feral cats and other domestic animals will “graze” in the deserted cities as long as there is food, and then they will run to the forests.
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NATURE WILL TAKE IT
In a month, the coolant at the nuclear power plants will evaporate, and all sorts of Fukushima, goats and Obninsk nuclear power plants will fly into the air. Since they will explode almost simultaneously, the real end of the world will begin on Earth. The soil, air and water will be contaminated as a result of the release of radioactive elements, many animals, birds and fish will die due to poisoning. As soon as the Earth cope with radioactive contamination, all living things will begin to slowly recover.
By this time, a strange starfall can be expected - artificial satellites will fall from Earth's orbit to Earth.
Structures will catch fire from lightning strikes, since there is no one to extinguish them, the fire will begin to spread to nearby buildings. So many villages, villages, neighborhoods, cities will be erased from the face of the Earth. There are many wooden buildings on the planet, and they are the very first to suffer. That which does not destroy fire will destroy time. After 100 years, there will be no trace of the wooden buildings. Termites, bugs and other microorganisms will reach unburned houses and begin their destructive work.
In three years, gas pipes in the northern countries will explode, leading to more fires.
Following this, bridges, houses, factories, factories, ships, power transmission towers, communication towers, high-voltage wires, roofs of houses will be destroyed. All this economy without special lubrication and painting will rust until it turns into a heap of scrap metal. Bridges, supports will decay, sprout with plants. In 20-50 years, not a trace will remain of the iron structures. Structures made of steel and iron, erected in the desert, will last the longest, because there is the least moisture there. However, there any creations of human hands will quickly be covered with sand. Entire cities will be cemeteries buried under the sand. Only memories will remain from Las Vegas, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Palmyra, Beijing, Cairo. The desert will take what a man once took away from it.
After a couple of decades, South and North America will turn into a single continent - the Panama Canal will overgrow, because there will be no one to clean it. All roads and sidewalks will become unusable, the asphalt will crack, the roadbed will be washed away by the rains and rivers that overflow the banks.
Fertile and reproduce
The good news: after a hundred years, the air on Earth will finally clear up. Due to human activities, the air was constantly polluted due to emissions of pipes from factories and power plants into the atmosphere, combustion of coal, oil, gas. Now there is no one to spoil the air. The soil and water will also be cleansed. Under man, there was extremely little land and water bodies in the world that could boast of virgin purity. The famous traveler Thor Heyerdahl wrote about nasty small particles the size of a pea on the surface of the seas in the middle of the 20th century. These were particles of black fuel oil covering large areas of the world's oceans. Finally, it will dissolve and disappear, it will be easier for fish and other sea creatures to breathe. The situation will be worse with plastic bags. The period of their decay in the wild is 400-500 years. Plastic containers and packaging do not decompose at all. After the disappearance of a person, there will be no one to burn these things. As a result, they will end up in the sewers, and then fall into rivers, lakes, seas. Animals - fish, turtles - will die because of them, mistaking them for food.
In 300 years, high-rise buildings, skyscrapers, dams, towers (Eiffel, Ostankinskaya, Shukhovskaya and others) will collapse. By this time, most of the Earth will again be covered with forests. Animals and birds will only be happy - they will finally find peace where they were expelled by man. By this time, the populations of all animals will be restored. Whales, for example, will reproduce as actively as the ocean allows them. Since there will be nothing to emit carbon dioxide, the regions of the Arctic will take the form that was before humans. Polar bears will breed. They will have enough food, the lack of which they are suffering from now due to melting ice and global warming. Birds will chirp in forests, fish will be abundant in rivers and seas. New species of animals will appear in the wild - they will interbreed with those that humans have imported and exported.
In 10,000 years, only the Great Wall of China and the Egyptian pyramids, destroyed to the ground, will remind of the existence of man on Earth. After 100,000 years, there will be no visible traces of humans on the planet. Only plastic bottles and bags will surf the seas and oceans, but in a few million years they will also disappear. The planet will breathe freely.
Vlad STROGOV