how do you think the earth would look if there was no human intervention changing it from natural state?

Question

i didn't say if humans didn' exist. of course i know humans help the earth in many ways, i was thinking of concrete masses and pollution etc (ie the bad things)

Answer 1

It would be nicer and more beautiful and peaceful place .. a paradise !!! dense forests .. savannas .. deserts .. highs and lows .. clean water and air .. Natures control itself greatly ..

Add .. no ugly structures .. no polluted water and air .. no waste .. no noise .. no visual pollution ..

Answer 2

Breathtakingly beautiful.

Assuming you were a visitor from another planet, because no human would exist, you could walk along the beach in Panama City Florida, look to your south and see perfect, pristine water. Just 10 ft. north of you you would see various palms and other sea-loving plants rather than 70 ft. condos racing for the last sq. centimeter of space between them.

That's what I imagine for just one small part of my state. I don't know enough about specifics of other various parts of the world, but that's what I can guess about my hometown. Ditto for the place I live now, which is the Tampa Bay area. Where my house is, there would just be little scrub palms, large palm trees and other vegetation.

Then again, had humans not come about, there's no telling what would/could have evolved. Maybe there would have been a super-race of frogs that destroyed all insects and other reptiles, creating some weird ecosystem I can't even start to imagine.

But assuming that everything else stayed the same, that'd be the picture I come up with.

Answer 3

Seems to me a sophomoric philosophical question..

The question should be, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around does it make a sound.?

Fact, we are here.. Fact, humans interact with the planet.

Fact when humans go extinct the planet's geology will change over millions of years and it's likely evidence of our existence will no longer be present. Some whacked out theories gave Edgar Cayce creedence for his treatise on Atlantis existing in the pre-dinosaur extinction period. (while the fossil record doesn't bear that out).

Frankly, humans have only scratched the surface of the planet. And a planet's crust is like human skin. It eventually sheds and new skin is born.

Answer 4

Much more forested, but swampy also. Hard to traverse through the weeds, vines, and undergrowth. Like my back yard in a really bad lazy hot wet summer. Boy, think how huge some old stately trees would be? Awesome! I don't think we'd see the kind of grass we are used to, like the type growing in yards and golf courses. Just plains grasses and prairie grasses...some areas would be much dryer and less arable, without dams and water being diverted. That's what I attribute the swampy areas to, also. Then there would be natural forest fires from lightening, so parts would look really desolate. It would be interesting, and yet beautiful.

Answer 5

The whole place would have burned down in a forest fire a long time ago. What makes you assume that human intervention isn't a natural state? Are we supernatural?

Answer 6

Like a national forest in some areas jungle in some and dessert in some and some would look the same as now, just most colors would look more intense.

Answer 7

I think beautiful. Nice trees, clean rivers and lakes and no polluted skies from cars.

Answer 8

i guess it would be just perfect becos there would still be technological advancement only that there would be a solution to every form of polution that way humans would exist but threr would be no adverse effects of humans' existence. how about that.

Answer 9

it wouldnt humans were put here for some unknown reason meanin this is how the earth was ment 2 be if not then humans wudnt be here

Answer 10

Sounds like crazy talk to me. There'd be brambles and nettles everywhere!

<<< Then where would I go walking eh? Did you think of that? Did you?