Alaska Structures Crumble without Us
![Buildings like this shed at the townsite of Fortymile in the Yukon don’t last forever. Water is the chief agent of destruction. Photo by Ned Rozell. Alaska Structures Crumble without Us](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/fortymile-rozell.jpg)
In Alan Weisman’s book, “The World Without Us,” the author ponders “a world from which we all suddenly vanished. Tomorrow.” In his thought experiment, Weisman travels around the world to explore that question, revealing that cockroaches and bedbugs would not fare well without our sloppiness and warmth, but Theodore Roosevelt’s granite face will stare down […]