What will be left when we’re gone? Bones, plastic, and radioactive waste.

Grist
By Kate YoderJul 5, 2019, 7:02 am152 pts
Millions of years from now, what will be left of us? At the rate we’re going, nature might well have taken over. Moscow and Mumbai will be sand and gravel cast across the desert expanse; New York City and Amsterdam will be sediment on the ocean floor, softened by the unrelenting tides. But beneath the…

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