Sweet new TV shows from Nat Geo
Jed | February 18, 2008A few weeks ago I wrote a post about The World Without Us, a book by Alan Weisman which explored a hypothetical world where all humans suddenly disappeared. It described what would happen to everything we’ve built and the environment which we’ve come close to wrecking.
Well now National Geographic has created a new TV show called Aftermath: Population Zero that will bring to life in vivid detail many of the scenarios described by the book. As the website says, “Aftermath: Population Zero investigates what would happen if every single person on Earth simply disappeared. This is the astounding story of a world we will never see.”
Here’s the trailer from the National Geographic website:
I can’t tell if the new TV series is conected with The World Without Us or not, but regardless I expect it will be incredibly interesting (especially in HD)!
Nat Geo recently aired a similar show called Six Degrees. It shows how increases in the global temperature of just a few degrees will utterly change the world we know it. Why they decided to debut it on Valentine’s Day is beyond me. Nothing’s quite as romantic as a show about global devastation, right? But hopefully they’ll re-air it soon.
(Thanks to Brian who brought this to my attention)
