{"id":849,"date":"2020-08-28T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=849"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:32:53","slug":"if-we-were-gone-imagining-the-world-without-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/if-we-were-gone-imagining-the-world-without-people\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifweweregone-595x705.jpg?resize=525%2C622&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"622\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12427\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3hEQhvM\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/9781541523579\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781541523579?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People<\/em><br \/>\nby John Coy (Author) and Natalie Capannelli (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Water, air, sunlight, plants . . . we need these elements to live in this world. But does the world need us? And what would happen to the world if humans were gone? <em>Nature would reclaim the planet!<em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ifweweregone1.jpg?resize=500%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12428\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People by John Coy (Author) and Natalie Capannelli (Illustrator) Booktalk: Water, air, sunlight, plants . . . we need these elements to live in this world. But does the world need us? And what would happen to the world if humans were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/if-we-were-gone-imagining-the-world-without-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-dH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1036,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/mammal-mania-30-activities-and-observations-for-exploring-the-world-of-mammals\/","url_meta":{"origin":849,"position":0},"title":"Mammal Mania: 30 Activities and Observations for Exploring the World of Mammals","author":"@roberta3","date":"May 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's look at the newest title in Chicago Review Press's Young Naturalist series, Mammal Mania: 30 Activities and Observations for Exploring the World of Mammals by Lisa J. 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