![]() In it, humans have discovered that souls that die on Earth appear on Venus, which is heaven. In Haunted (2005) by Chuck Palahniuk is a short story called "Obsolete". ![]() The Discovery Channel broadcast Bowdlerised it by saying mankind had simply abandoned the planet, and was sending a probe every couple of eons to check on the Earth's progress. The lack of humanity is merely a MacGuffin nothing is mentioned about how or why humanity might go. The documentary series The Future is Wild proposes what life on Earth might look like if humanity is no longer a factor in 5 million, 100 million, and 200 million year increments.Some humans survive, but ultimately lose their sapience. Another example starts happening to humanity in 2031, when a supervolcano erupts, worsening the state of the environment that human activity had already damaged.In the late Jurassic, a sentient species of the theropod dinosaur Ornitholestes succumbs to extinction when the Diplodocus herd they hunt dies off due to both the breakup of Pangea causing climate disruption and the death of the herd’s elderly matriarch.Stephen Baxter's Evolution has two examples.So huge numbers of people just commit suicide, and the titular main character, who inhabits the body of a chimpanzee after an accident left her original body paralyzed, is left alone with the monkeys. In Eva by Peter Dickinson, just about everything is done by machines, various animal species have gone extinct, and humanity has basically gotten bored with living.In Greg Egan's novel Diaspora, most humans have been voluntarily converted to software, beginning around 2065. ![]()
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