Co-host Matt Lauer:
“The book is called The World Without Us, and it asks the question what
would happen to planet Earth if human beings were to suddenly
disappear....And really it’s all about trying to figure out how long it
would take nature to reclaim what we’ve created.”
Co-host Meredith Vieira: “The mess.”
Lauer: “How long it would take nature to fix the mess we’ve
made?...Would the Earth miss us at all? How long would it take for it to
fix the problems we created?”
— NBC’s Today, September 4, 2007
Lauer: If We Died Off, How Long Would Earth Take to Fix Our 'Mess?'
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