Life After People (Part 1)

Have you think about the happen when there is no any people in the world? What will happen at the age of population zero? We don’t know how human beings become extinct. But we can imagine the world without human beings in science.

In this age, time is no use. In few hours, 70% power plant using coal and carbon will closed without people work. Most of lights will off in the world.

Two days after, the nuclear power and wind power without people work will closed too. All the electricity will be broken off except the southwest of USA. All of the place will in the dark except Las Vegas. There will have the only lights all over the world. The Hu Fee Dam works by hydropower will de the last working power plant in the world. The system about electricity will collapse. The pumps pump water keep the tunnels out of flood will be stopped. The groundwater will rise and flood the tunnels.

One week after, the food in supermarket and in refrigerator will rot. The dogs as the pets will die because of starvation and fight. The kinds of the dogs and the survival skills they have that is an important factor to let them survive.

Few weeks after, the rats and the cockroaches will eat all the food which human leave. The rats will come back to the nature. They will be preyed by other animals and the number of the rats will reduce. The cockroaches will eat the books, papers and woods. But they are the tropical animals. They will die great amount without human beings in the first winter. The pest will in the prime age without pesticide.

Six months after, the cities will become to a wilderness, the small predators will come back to the cities.

One year after, the most physical effect is the plants. The plants will grow up and spread. They can destroy everything in few years. At first, they will grow up and wither. The moss and lichen will grow up. Then they will change to be the dust and cover all the grounds. Some plants will spread on the wall. They let the wall pressure increase. Finally, the wall will fall down. The lightning also makes the forest on fire. It burns the threes and also the buildings by wood. All of these will become to the nutrient. The Hu Fee Dam will be covered with microorganism. They will block the cold water pipes without cleaning. The pipes will overheat and let the generators closed. All the electricity is gone in the world. There are no more lights at night. The upper reaches of the Hu Fee Dam will arrive to the discharge point and the lower reaches will become dry.

                                                                                                                     To be continued ……