Here's what would happen if ALL humans completely disappeared

Very interesting 👍

Salute to the camera man🫡

Remember the TV series "Life after People"?

America is not the only country in the world. Maybe other cities in other countries will keep their lights on.

Is this if the Rapture actually happened?

I feel like aspects of this video should have been addressed in the Planet of the Apes movies.

We are still recovering ancient settlements from thousands of years ago, I think even with our infrastructures gone, we would leave behind massive earth works and buried foundations of our structures

If the Earth was threatened by a sun explosion/astroid or something else as deadly, I can’t think of any possibility other than humans to get out of a situation like that,

He forgot nuclear subs & tons of toxic chemicals everywhere leeching into earth, rivers, oceans. Long time to clear. We'll disappear too late, nixing biodiversity too soon. Icarus beware your wings.

If mankind were to ever be wiped out — it will go down as the best day of our lives.

Is there will be mutant furries and scalies after another 15 billion years?

Bro leave my dog out of it

New york has smart buildings which can run off power generated(williamsburg bk,greenpoint bk,mt,vernon bx, and a few other palces) by solar power, theres not many yet, but there are a few high rises that will have power for yours. all be it just lights and water purification, but it would still work as its automated for a power out scenario.

Bro you didn't even give credit to where you stole this concept and clips. Not good.

Only negative I have is Chicago would not be underwater.

You've got lions in grocery stores in less than a week. Nothing would happen that fast.

If I were the only human left on earth, it would be a dream come true for me

Every subject you take away from earth has consequences.

I beileve this needs to happen, we have ruined this earth

I'd like to enter spectator mode and watch all of this unfold

That would be nice, fair and justiceful.

Hoomans are the problem

You had me at ‘Here’s…’ 😅

I think we should start taking care of the earth

I have a problem with the power timeline. He only listed fossil fuels powerplants. He didn't account for solar hydro and nuclear power plants

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I imagine domestic animals such as dogs cats would die very soon after after they depend on humans for their survival. Same for farm livestock though horses might fare longer through open free grazing...

Why do you keep saying if humans disappear without a trace. Every man made object is a trace that we were here.

There are issues with the supposed timing and chain of events here. For one, almost all zoos do NOT use electrical fences to keep things like elephants, lions and so on inside. Many are housed behind bars and in deep-set concrete-lined pits - so the sad fact is, most zoo animals would NOT escape: they'd be stuck, and they'd starve. The same would be true of most dogs and cats indoors. With the people suddenly gone, they don't have thumbs or any way to open the doors and get out in many cases, and it's not a movie, so they can't just "jump through the glass" - most modern glass is not so easily shattered, is thick, and double-paned, so if your dog ran at it, they'd bounce off - especially for smaller dogs. They'd have literally NO way of escaping in all too many cases - and they'd have days at most without food and water to live. If the bathroom door happened to be open, they'd drink out of the toilet so long as the plumbing system was working - so the big issue would be food. The lucky ones would have big bags of kibble at ground level and not behind a closed door, where they could chew into it and subsist on that a while - but it wouldn't last long. The LUCKIEST ones would survive a month or two on what little food they could access in the house, which would quickly be covered in their feces and urine since the poor things couldn't get outside to relieve themselves. Then, slowly, they'd die of starvation.

You ALSO have to realize most dogs wouldn't WANT to leave. In THEIR mind, YOU are their home and family. They'd whimper and cry and WAIT for you to return until the end. A return that would never come. They would die sad and lonely and wondering why you abandoned them. THAT is the unfortunate fate of many animals in people's homes in this scenario.

As for mice and bugs, they WOULD NOT magically just infest the place in days. That's nonsense for any reasonably well-built place. I was just gone for 3 MONTHS recently and when I came back, the place was dusty, but that's it. It was exactly as I'd left it. No, nature reclaiming modern apartments and homes that are well sealed and insulated would take years. After 1 year without power, the food in the refrigerator would have long since turned to vile mush. The canned food would sit on the shelf, just fine - there are canned meals from WWII that are technically still edible in some cases, so they can last a LONG time. Decades, for some foods. By 1 year in, the home would be dusty, the dog and cat would have died at least 10 months ago, and the few flies that got inside would have laid their eggs in their bodies - the maggots growing into flies and laying their own eggs and so on - by a year in they'd be bones and mummified skin and not much else, and there would be dead flies (since they don't live long) everywhere. The place would have a foul smell. But there wouldn't be THAT many bugs or mice yet, since the structure of the place was still intact enough to keep them from entering in the first place.

After 5 y ears of neglect, a thick layer of dust would cover everything. Spiderwebs would be everywhere.

After 10 years, there may be a family of mice living there, and feces all over the floors. Mould would grow on the walls from the decay and fecal matter, and wallpaper would begin to peel off.

After 20 years, the place would be just a more dilapidated version of that - it has reached a stable state of very gradual disrepair.

After 75 years, provided the windows are all still intact and not broken by storms, the home would begin to see some collapse where there was moisture build-up. Otherwise, if in a dry, arid area, shockingly little would change - we know this because there are World War II bunkers that, if left alone and not flooded, are essentially the same as in the 1940s. Furniture and all. I've seen one where the POWER still worked inside when switched on, though that's rare.


After 100 years in a MOIST environment, nature would have begun to reclaim and tear apart the building - mould would rot the walls, leading to collapses, which would allow the elements and insects in. But in a DRY, ARID environment above ground level, it's possible that even after 150 years, the place would still stand - dusty and faded, but standing still. We know this because there ARE buildings this old and much older with original 19th century furniture inside. From here on out though, how FAST decay happens depends on the ENVIRONMENT the place is in. Dry, arid areas would simply last a lot longer than wet, humid tropical areas.

By 500 years later, many buildings in many climates would have collapsed. Some made of stone would continue to stand for a thousand years or even thousands, probably with partial collapse if an earthquake hits or a major storm hits - but MOST buildings within 500 years made with modern quick-build techniques would be heaps of rubble by 500 years from now. ROADWAYS would almost all be torn up by root action and weathering.

By 5,000 years later, even our largest cities with towering buildings would not be detectable at the surface - they'd have long since collapsed and corroded away the metal elements, with roots and freeze-thaw weathering and so on breaking apart concrete. Some STONE elements - granite, for instance - would remain for tens of thousands of years if not millions to billions of years if buried under sediments and protected from weathering (after all, there's granite on earth that is more than 3 billion years old right now). Their distinctive carved SHAPE would be softened, though - the edges blunted by years of being blasted by sand and wind and rain, and if left at the surface and not buried, they'd become gravel and then sand eventually.

By 50,000 years - which SOUNDS long but on the scale of evolution and earth history is a short time - at the surface, there would be virtually no sign human beings had ever existed - except perhaps for a depression in the ground here or there where we'd created a massive open-pit mine. All the steel would have long since corroded away, all the concrete and pavement reduced to dust long ago - if you visited New York City in 50,000 years, by then, another glaciation might have scoured the area - especially with us gone so global warming trends may reverse without our CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere - and it would be this cool temperate northern coast, with trees everywhere (just as there used to be BEFORE we arrived). Where once the Empire State Building stood, there would only be a coastline covered in pine and other trees, and you'd never guess a city had been there at all - any TRACES of that ancient city would be buried under a thick layer of soil and loess (wind-blown sediment) and sand from flooding inward by the sea - what HAD been the streets of manhattan would now be maybe 5 meters below your feet - you'd have to dig DOWN to find the thin layer of now heavily broken apart plastics that would mark the time that city existed.

And that's all that would mark our entire existence on this planet from then on. But even PLASTIC doesn't last forever - unlike some claims, it DOES get broken down eventually - but it can last a long, long time. But not in a recognizable SHAPE, you see. Plastic bags break down within 20 years. Plastic BOTTLES break down within 500 years. Denser, thicker plastics maybe a thousand years. Chemically, they can stick around EONS, but they'd be broken down to smaller and smaller pieces - so basically, you'd end up with a SAND - fine grains - made up of plastic particles, in a thin layer, deep underground. Erosion in many places would EVENTUALLY break apart those layers and spread that thin layer of plastic sediment around, but it'd get buried again, and re-worked - and in the end, THAT's our legacy - micro-plastic particles in a thin layer of sediment in t he rocks, far in the future. Eventually even THAT would be destroyed - dragged down as subduction continues and one tectonic plate slides underneath another -melted by immense heat and pressure, back to the earth from whence it came. There would be outcrops of rocks in 500 million years that if you knew which layer to look at, you could chemically analyze them and see the plastic signature and go "that's odd...maybe a civilization existed half a billion years ago" - and that's it. That, and the fossils of our bones, if any remained after half a billion years. We're pretty numerous , so chances are there'd be SOME human fossils - but we'd just be another strange kind of primate for some distant future civilization of sentient beings to put in a museum and go "what a weird creature that was".

You totally retconned the nuclear power plant disaster. There's no way nature would be thriving 1 yr after all the power plants explode

Humans can't live without nature but nature can live without humans.

The world will look like that just like the thumbnail

Humans, who are self-centered and unclean, have proven incapable of departing from the planet earth without inflicting harm upon other beings. Their malevolent nuclear power facilities is evil humans are fallen angels. Animals, on the other hand, can thrive without their presence. The countless pigs, cows, and calves that have been mercilessly slaughtered by humans. Undeniably, humans have invaded this planet, subjecting every living creature to enslavement and death. Naturally, we could not simply perish; instead, we have left behind nuclear power plants to perpetuate further destruction. How can humans not be considered fallen angels who have been banished by God? It is inconceivable that God would have sent us to another planet to inflict such extensive harm upon other creatures. Yet, somehow, we find ourselves here.

Imagine that you never heard of humanity now! Because you only lesson to what you are told!!! Imagine that you are put hear all alone you never seen another person!! Because you only know what they have put in your mind!!? Everything you know is is programmed in your mind as a child. Loose it for today pretend you don't know anyone or anything about people!! Now!!! Can you feel how great that is!!! But now forget what I have told you and learn everything yourself you can do it!!! Learn to read and write and live in peace with no destruction of 🌎 earth and no wars noone to build bombs and nuclear power to destroy the world 🌎!!! Just you!

I wonder what would happen to all those dangerous samples we have in laboratories around the world

Uhhh. Mt. Rushmore will not still be there after 100,000,000 years.

If the mountain still stands the faces would have LONG ago eroded away.

Human beasts have left their mark of evil for sure no more evil and fast ahead to the smell of roses forever more.

Humans have to learn that they cannot have 9 kids and ask you to pay for them along with being educated on BIRTH CONTROL asap

There is something I find comedic that of all things, Mt. Rushmore lives past everything else we’ve made.

What about all the radiations after the collapse of nuclear power plants? Wouldn't they affect life for thousands of years?

My dad is a nuclear test tech, your theory of mass nuclear explosions may occur in some locations but in the united states at least. It would not, they have a massive amount of fail safes in nuclear powerplants to completely and safely shut down if improperly attended, preventing meltdowns

I just hope the future humans rediscover Runescape.

Nuclear reactors exploding...
So much said in general with so little research actually having been conducted to substantiate many of these claims.

People love to demonize nuclear power because they have close to 0 understanding of how it works and how it is designed (look up Dunning Kruger as to why people firmly believe it is bad), especially modern power plants (or modernized ones at least).

Seriously, a lot of this makes little to no sense. Thought experiments are interesting, but some also spread entirely false information due to little research being done, mostly in the name of sensationalism, for interaction and to get views... Well done in that respect I suppose.

All the people here praising it and saying "thought provoking!" didn't research past this one video... it is sad to see how willingly people gobble up false information and congratulate people that spread it, further feeding the cycle of misinformation being spread online.
The video didn't make give me an existential crisis, reading the comments did.

the Eiffel Tower which is also made of steel is predicted to fall around this time along the Statue of Liberty and all other major skyscrapers around the world structures made of metal and glass would be the first to go whereas stone structures would last the longest but even though this would become softened and weakened by the continual water damage and lack of maintenance the last remaining man-made structures would be the Great Wall of China the Pyramids of Giza and Mount Rushmore all of which we could remain intact for thousands of years after our disappearance 100 million years after humans disappeared the sole remaining evidence of human life on Earth aside from our fossilized bones will be shards of plastic and Mount Rushmore if any new species of sentient life were to form at any point around this time these artifacts would be all they had to piece together few humans even were when we talk about the greatest threats to our human civilization we tend to think of man-made constructs like foreign governments nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence but rarely do we ever consider the power that seemingly harmless things such as water climate and plant life possess against this rather fragile reality we've built and so at first thinking about how swiftly mother nature would reclaim her Earth after we're gone could feel kind of depressing but at the same time thinking about how powerful this planet really is even despite the tremendous amount of environmental damage we've caused can be oddly reassuring in maybe even liberating imagine now that you're back in your home with your freshly brewed cup of coffee in hand as you look out your window Focus this time on the shrubs and Greenery planted along the sidewalk instead of the busy intersection and the honking cars instead of looking at the people waiting to cross the street think about the Earth they're standing on and all the layers of nature that have been buried beneath that concrete when you look at the sky instead of focusing on the planes flying high think about the clouds they soar amongst realize that this planet we call Earth is so vast and that human life and all that we've created is really just one small part of it

I mean, stealing footage from a documetnary about the exact subejct lol

great video.

What has caused humans to disappear ?🇬🇧🇫🇴

Biggest terrifying stuff is Environment made in all 5 elements.

I have no words for this video other than the fact that it's incredibly well made and it really makes you think about how much of a difference we really make on this planet! :D