Aftermath: Population Zero
- Narrator: Reg E. Cathey
Population Zero - The World Without Us is an American, Canadian and German documentary after published in 2007 non-fiction book The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It was produced by Stephen Milton for the National Geographic Channel, ProSieben and History Television. The narrator in the English original is Reg E. Cathey, the German narrator is Frank Röth.
Content
The film is based on the content of the non-fiction book The World Without Us. It is presented the thought experiment, how long it would take until nature would bring back the human habitat.
First, it is shown how the world would change in the first minutes after the disappearance of mankind. The considered time intervals are getting bigger, it will be hours, days, months, finally illuminated decades of human absence. The effects on the abandoned technology, the cities, but also on flora and fauna are considered in more detail. It covers both the domestic, captive and free-ranging animals.
The earth is 4.5 billion years old. In the last 10,000 years, humanity lumbered around half of the forests. These would grow back without the people of 500 years. Half of the available fresh water on the planet was consumed by humans. In addition, two-thirds of the rivers were channeled and dammed. After 200 years, the rivers would be exempted from the largest dams in the world and have cleaned by the self-healing power of nature. In recent years, the industrial age, the annual output was 13.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide. The plants and the sea would be able to compensate for this load within a few centuries. The urban development would expire after 120 years. After 25 years, the largest proportion of contaminated destroyed by nuclear power plants matter would be seeping into the ground. The animal and plant populations would recover from human intervention over time.
The bottom line is that the earth very well without humanity cope, mankind but not without the earth.
Background
Shots for the film originated at Hoover Dam, Skylon Tower, Bruce Power Plant, Bowmanville Zoo, Orangeville, Buffalo Welding Company, Glen Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon National Park and Niagara Frontier State Park.
The film was shown in the U.S. for the first time on March 9, 2008. On 26 June 2009, the film in Germany was published by Polyband on DVD. In Germany the film on May 19, 2012, first aired on ProSieben on free TV. In this case, about 1.07 million people were reached, accounting for 3.7 percent of the total audience and 5.9 percent in the target group.
Reception
Judging The editors of Cinema and Television Film: " The fictional documentary plays the scenario by imposing and impressive credited with the human exploitation from. " My conclusion is that the film was " science fiction, humility provoked ".
Rupert summer of monstersandcritics.de believes the film show an " impressive, sometimes nightmarish vision of the future ."
The editors of the prism ratings is: " In stunningly realistic images, the viewer gets an idea of what would happen if the nature of the earth had again on its own. "