My daughter introduced me to this show today--she's on summer vacation and spending a lot of time watching the History Channel and Animal Planet. Hey, at least it's educational.Anyway, we saved a couple of episodes on the DVR and took a look together. While an interesting show in its way, it also doesn't make a great deal of sense. The show focuses not on how people were eliminated, but on what supposedly would happen to the planet after we're all gone. This premise seems flawed to me, because the fate of everything else on the planet is going to be dependent on how the people get wiped out. For example, if there's a nuclear holocaust, the aftermath will be distinctly different than if, for example, a meteor smacks into the planet.
Perhaps I'm missing the point of the show, though. Maybe it's really just about how much we've affected our planet, for bad and for worse. In many ways, the projected results make you think that maybe Earth would be better off without us.
