In the novel “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman, Weisman conjures up a clear picture (backed up by scientific articles conducted and written by several environmental scientists, evolutionary scientists, and more) of how our Earth would be if one day all humans were to disappear completely. Weisman clearly creates the hypothesis in his novel that if all humans and our influence were to disappear from the Earth completely, the Earth would take care of itself. According to Weisman, what would be a humans worst nightmare would be our Earth’s positive opportunity to start anew. This novel is an imperative, thought-provoking start to any AP Environmental Science student’s APES class year. This novel gets students gears turning about what our Earth is truly capable of without the influence of humans, and just how big our carbon footprint really is. Through reading this novel several points are brought up using the themes of APES such…show more content… The forest is a home to over 800 European Bison, as well as being a home to more kinds of life than anywhere else on the continent. Trees tower here to over 150 feet tall, their huge canopies providing the perfect moist environment for ferns, hornbeams, swamp alders, and more. Which provokes this question to readers: Is the environment and things living amongst it really as dependent on humans as we’ve made them out to be? Or have we made these environments dependent on us humans? All signs in The World Without Us point to YES, we absolutely have. The forest in England certainly proves that not only could our environment be completely self-dependent, but that it is also very easily influenced by, for lack of a better word, invasive