How Earth would look if all humans disappeared?

Nothing would happen because there would be no words to describe it.

Except the article describes what would happen to everything currently existing on Earth, not before it was inhabited by humus.

so what would happen to our buildings? they would just collapse? how would trees cope with all the concrete and debris found in cities? or would plants just chew through all that stuff until the rubble was fully encapsulated in soil or the like?

Do you think that if humans disappeared our urban habitats might influence new species to evolve or just adapt in wierd ways.

is in some of its aspects that of the greatest failure in history. . . . Plato and Aristotle . . . each in his different way tries (by suggesting forms of constitution other than those under which the race had fallen into political decadence) to rescue that Greek world which was so much to him from the political and social disaster to which it is rushing. But the Greek world was past saving.

Then again they were truly twin-stars, born to complement each other; Plato the mystic, Aristotle the logician; Plato the belittler of natural science, Aristotle the observer of dolphins and whales; Plato, the spinner of allegorical yarns (the Cave) , Aristotle the dialectition and casuist; Plato, vague and ambiguous, Aristotle precise and pedantic. Lastly--for this catalogue could be continued forever-- they evolved systems of philosophy which, though different and even opposed in detail, taken jointly seemed to provide a complete answer to the predicament of the time.

The predicament was the political, economic and moral bankruptcy of classical Greece prior to the Macedonian conquest. A century of constant war and civil strife had bled the country of men and money; venality and corruption were poisoning public life; hordes of political exiles, reduced to the existence of homeless adventurers, were roaming the countryside; legalized abortion and infanticide were further thinning out the rank of citizens.

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so what would happen to our buildings? they would just collapse? how would trees cope with all the concrete and debris found in cities? or would plants just chew through all that stuff until the rubble was fully encapsulated in soil or the like?

As has been said, if humans disappeared, nothing would exist, something like how nothing existed for you in 69 AD, the year of the Roman leadership's biggest reshuffle, or even in 1876, the year of my grandfather's birth, an important year for me as it led to my being here writing all this shite on A2k and an important year for you as it led to you reading it, or 7952 BC when the Matriarchy was in full swing and not one ounce of progress ever took place from century to century or from millienium to millenium, nor ever looked likely to.

If the language exists to describe it it would mean we humans hadn't disappeared in which case all the building would be in pristine condition and the trees would be in nice neat rows and pruned to perfection. The soil would, of course, do what we tell it.

To arrive at no humans from where we are will require a mighty flash of energy outreach leaving nothing behind because there is no-one there to say anything is anything.

If there are ever only a few humans left then they could describe what happens to all this stuff and they would probably describe the scenes they have seen in movies of such scenarios as posited in the thread subject. But then there wouldn't be no humans so that's out under anti-trolling regulations.

You're a pessimist. By "fully encapsulated in soil or the like" you mean in the **** don't you. The Christian human spirit will never be fully encapsulated in soil or the like, not fully, unless the mighty flash of energy outreach comes to pass in as near as dammit infinitessimal period of time. Then there would be nothing. No decaying. No such thing as decaying.

Maybe fresco might comment on any points I have failed to make clear or any logical difficulties I might have overlooked.