Sometimes, those of us who have an inkling of how the earth is affected by man's abyssmal stewardship of this planet, have to resort to scare tactics to get some us to acknowledge the issues that are presenting themselves so that we can change our ways to promote the health of this place we live. I don't like it that there are those who would be so cavalier about very real problems, such as global warming. I have known for some years now, that something wasn't quite right with the our climate. Now, I have a name to call the problem.

Kerry - do you ever believe you'll stop repeating crap you hear on Fox news? I mean damn - this post has nothing to do about global warming - the show it refers to is about what happens if humans disappear, with other species alive, essentially the opposite of what will happen with global warming.

This show looks great though, oddly interesting in some morbid, macabre way.

Does anyone know WHEN it will be on? I can't seem to find any dates.

Seems to me that the point of the movie is that we are short-timers and that a few thousand measly years after we are gone, there won't even hardly be any sign that we were here at all.

If this special is like "Life After People" it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING. IT DOES NOT DISCUSS HOW MANKIND ENDED. It only shows what would happen to what we have built.

This look awsome! I was actually just about to start looking up some information about what would happen if our cities were deserted.

Definately keeping tabs on this show.

Is this taken from "The world Without Us" by Alan Weisman? The trailer seems like it was taken directly from the book.

Thank you all for the enthusiasm. It really is going to be a fun/interesting show. To answer Artie's question the show is two hours long so you can set your DVR/Tivo from 8p to 10p et/pt.

Thanks!

Out here in Albuquerque, just north of the city limit is a huge enclosure for the American Bison herd belonging to the Sandia Pueblo Indians. I figure they wouldn't take too long breaking out of there so we would have a buffalo herd starting to regenerate their former numbers. And ... before anyone pounces ... my wife and I are of Cherokee descent and we call our People "Indians". We can do that if we want to.

i think its scary, but the trailer was really cool!!!!!

This documentary seems to be based on the book by Alan Weizman: The World Without Us. The book didn't mention anything about global warming, it was pure science (just like this documentary). If some people find objections to this perhaps they should be watching fox news and not national geographic.

This video was awesome. It makes us as humans realize how much of an impact we have on enviroment. This has nothing to do with global warming, but it does metion in the video that after 120 years since humans disappeared the earth starts its on healing process.

Please tell me if this is going to be on DVD or not. This program looks awesome!!!

You got this idea from the History Channel's Life After People special.

This seems like it will be interesting to me but I am a christian so I know that up until the "last days" people will still be here..up until the last war between good and evil.
Many civilizations in the past were, according to Geologists and Archeologists, "wiped out" suddenly or destroyed a little at a time..but still, some of the reamins stand. Wonder how many civilizations there really were?This considering how quickly this video portrays the "breaking down" of our communities would be.

Just finished watching the show - awesome! Thought the predictions were conservative (I have stood in the forest that took over a fort that was considered one of the defenses of the American way, 20 years after it ceased to exist, and I know nature recovers more quickly than the show indicates). Kept waiting for the prediction on the fall of the Great Wall of China, and didn't get it. When does it disappear?
Thanks.

If Nat Geo got this idea from the History Channel the expanded it far beyond that! In a very good way. The History Channel show was a washed out comparison of what I saw last night. Ignore it! That is human nature with our egocentric ideals. From what I've read most scientist agree on global warming, but the debate comes in at whether mankind has caused it. Again with the egocentric thing! To the Christians talking about what will be...you don't KNOW anything except what other people wrote about the end of days very many years ago according to the mores of their time. If the 'greatest' species on earth has not interacted with their environment and caused changes I would be very surprised. All of the earth is made of up changes, interractions, adaptions, and diversity. We try to make it all a monoculture with our crops and lawns. Not going to work. Nat Geo did a fantastic job portraying the wonderful idea of humans out of the picture!

I just have a small question that has been bothering me since last nights show.
How many year will it take for the pollution and global warming and green gases to be fully gone?

if you feel like commenting or messaging back that would be very appreciated.
Thank you.

my e-mail is secrets_of_my_window@yahoo.com

Bishop, You, and people like you dont KNOW anything, period. People are not attempting to make the world a monoculture with their "crops and lawns". You say that as if we do it to pass the time. Merely, we exploit too much in our attempts to be great and fulfill our purposes. There is no such thing as "a wonderful world without humans." Talk about a sense of self worth! It is horrible that you think so lowly of people. When you talk of Christians and the bible (what i beleive you are referring to), you have it all wrong. The bible very much applies to our lives and the future. It was written through divine influence, by God, who knows all of what will happen in the future. Humans are, in a sense the future of the planet. Wildlife is precious, true, but the deer will never aspire to be more than what it is. The bird will never envision a destiny among the stars, exploring , and finding new things as it dreams of being better than what it is. Human life is precious. I hope that you will realize your mistake eventually. Your life is much too valuable to be wasted wishing that the human race was extinct.

I just finished watching this show. I agree with this poster:
"...(snipped)...a blatant ripoff of Alan Weisman's book, "The World Without Us"." Weisman's book explores this premise in much greater detail and has a quicker pace then the film. The book also does a good job documenting the basis for it's conclusions. Oh yeah, and the book also lacks the ominous voice-over and music.

Other then being a ripoff, several things annoyed me. The time devoted to the drama of "what's going to happen to that little doggie in the window?" was a little monotonous. The film also spent far too long (and far too much of the budget) on the CGI falling of the Hoover Dam, Eiffel Tower, and the Statue of Liberty. Which is the only apparent reason they kept looping them into the film every 5 minutes.

So shame on creamproductions.ca and the National Geographic Channel for not crediting Alan Weisman's book. In fact they don't credit anything or anyone. What's up with that?

and by the way... if you are going to CGI the falling of the Statue of Liberty; how can you not pay hommage to the Plants of the Apes? Would of it killed you to CGI a screeching monkey waving it's fist at the fallen head?

This was an interesting show, but I was blown away at how one sided it was. It was so anti-people. It even went to the extent of blaming people for "disrupting the mating calls of the whale with our ships". I think the most intelligent creature in the world can find away around it. It was nothing but sixty minutes of slamming mankind for its mere existence. I mean, i have no problem with environmental awareness, but this show was basically saying that the human being is nothing but a invasive parasite that needs to be killed off. I'm not kidding. It doesn't even get all the facts right. It has nuclear reactors massively exploding after one week. That's not even possible! Excuse me for thinking Nat Geo would be impartial.

AJ:

I think the narrator is Reg E. Cathey, an actor who was on OZ.

nothin is for ever,one day humans will desapear considering that our planet is arround 4 thousand millions years old, how many civilizations has been living in the surface of these planet, no one certainly knows, it could be that earth it self go under drastics global change every a period of time and the rest of differents being remains in the surface for a long period of time, this could be the reason why there are many artifacts or materials things in these planet that we can not explain, like the nasca figures seen from the space only or the gigiant figures of the pascua island, just an example.

Ok, according to this program

1) We caused Global Warming (ignoring the solar activity that is the cause of Global Warming) and almost killed the planet

2) The planet would be better off without us

3) We are all bad and should kill the human race off and give the planet back to the animals

4) We did nothing but cause problems

Umm, right.

I thought the Discovery Channel did a much better job with this subject.
I couldn't watch the entire NGC show because it was simply too tiresome. It looked like it was produced by a bunch of high schoolers. Here's how every single scene went:
[Dour narrator says]: "This is what the world was like for the 10,000 years that humans were here..."
[...continues]: "This is what it is like now..."
[ANNOYING REWIND/FAST-FORWARD SOUND]
[QUICK FLASHBACK THAT LASTS FOR 1/5 SECOND]
Repeat this sequence for 120 minutes.
I'm not taking any sides with respect to any political/environmental issues. My point is that it was a poor-quality show in general.
It played like a cruel parody of a typical NGC program. From the narcotized narrator to the cheesy sound effects, this was the work of amateurs. Simply Godawful.

But fiction doesnt have to be this hateful toward people.

This was a good show but when it is 6 hours A.H., the microwave is still runnning with cup of coffee in it. It would have been better in an earlier segment of the period A.H.

I can actuallly see this happening. Animals, plants all the way God made it in the end. Man really screwed up in this one.

I think it's a great idea. I'm 15, but I find this very intriguing. It's a great way to get younger viewers to think of new ways we can live, without having to harm the environment. You people criticising this show are nuts. You don't have to be a tree hugger to be interested in this stuff, this show deserves your time, so watch an episode, and shut up about global warming and how it's nothing to worry about because everyone who was ever important says it's a threat. We're far from a perfect race, and I blame it on the critics.

It looks interesting, I'll watch it....

A truly dreadful program, which unmasks itself with its final lines of narration: "It took nature only 1000 years to clean up the mess we made. All we had to do....is get out of the way."

Yeah, that's it: humans (other than those all-Wise and all-Benign NGC program producers and other "green" folks) are eeeeeeviiillll.

Doncha just love the idea that all buildings will be gone after a thousand years?? I suppose the Pyramids have lasted 2500+ because they are on special Extended Warranty program.

And funnit, innit, how the producers know the fate of Fido and Fluffy's progeny, and how other animals will evolve in...a thousand years. Sorry, folks; evolution of mammals doesn't happen that fast.
and how ....convenient...that Global Warming stops ---- as if it didn't happen again and again when the human population really WAS zero!

Bad propaganda. Made me gag.

As for those who still thinks all scientists agree that GW is happening , and that humans cause it: google this name:

Kim DabeLstein Petersen

with this one:

Roger Solomon

It seems Wikipedia has curiously one-sided "standards" as to what sources can be posted on the subject of GW.

A skeptic? don't bother trying!

Consensus? I got yer consensus....right here!

WOW! This show sucked! It shows what the "Green Heads" and the "Water Melons" (green on the outside, red on the inside) really think about the human race. They'd all love for us to just go away. I can only hope that the writers and producers of this liberal crapola killed themselves shortly after its release. I believe in leading by example. Assholes!

I dont seem to get why this is such a big debate. It is a television show for entertainment purpose only. Stop taking it literal people. Whether the world goes on with out people or not isnt the issue. The issue is did this show entertain you or not. Come on and give up the arguements about whos gunan die already. sheesh