Target Game: Gamma World/D20 Future/D20 Apocalypse Research MaterialAn Earth Without People
A new way to examine humanity's impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared
By Steve Mirsky
"According to Weisman, large parts of our physical infrastructure would begin to crumble almost immediately. Without street cleaners and road crews, our grand boulevards and superhighways would start to crack and buckle in a matter of months. Over the following decades many houses and office buildings would collapse, but some ordinary items would resist decay for an extraordinarily long time. Stainless-steel pots, for example, could last for millennia, especially if they were buried in the weed-covered mounds that used to be our kitchens. And certain common plastics might remain intact for hundreds of thousands of years; they would not break down until microbes evolved the ability to consume them."
Resources, Art and Non-Fiction
Scientific American, July 2007 issue
The Art of Alexis Rockman
The Art of Kenn Brown
12 Oz. Prophet
Alan Weisman
The World without Us
Resources, Gaming
d20 Apocalypse
d20 Future
Gamma World
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