The World Without Us 15 October 2014 Update

I'm on page 180/353. If humans were to disappear without warning, then North America would be destroyed. The nuclear powered factories would eventually melt down. The first initial explosion would start a chain reaction. The combined powers of all these nuclear meltdowns would put North America into a mini-nuclear winter. If humans had a small warning that they were about to disappear, then the workers at these factories could take the necessary precautions to prevent the mini-nuclear winter.

The World Without Us October Update

10/6/14- I'm on page 153/353. This book is still pretty boring, but some parts of it is interesting. This book jumps from subject to subject a lot. You could be reading about 2 species of monkeys crossbreeding to reading about the mass extinction that happened when humans first came to North America. Reading about the history of plastic is boring, but reading about pre-1970's plastic eaten by fish and polar bears turned them into hermaphrodites is interesting. This is also the first book that I've read that doesn't follow the traditional Hero's Cycle.