A timeline that shows how long it would take for traces of human-made things and systems to vanish if we all suddenly went away.

In other words The World would live happily ever after

Correct!

Or at leastb until someone replaces humans as the dominant species. Like on that planet of the apes i've heard so much of.

Mark Wahlberg and Charlton Heston have been there. Ask them.

12 Monkeys

Cool graph! Ohh, those would be the days, my friend......

We're doing a lot of things wrong right now, but I find it kind of hard to see a positive side to the extinction of the human race; since it would involve a probably pretty gruesome death for all of us.

...probably [a] pretty gruesome death for all of us.

I can't help but agree.

thebeatpoet, who wrote the book? It sounds interesting.

"man's arrogant persistance of existance" I like that.

Well it wouldn't be so bad if most people and countries understood how important is the earth to our survival.

very interesting

Haraya, Ishmael was written by Daniel Quinn. I read it a few months ago and was impressed with the message.

Thanks gingembre! I'll look for the book.