It is not the worst show on TV, but it is bad. Very bad.
It is disinformation of the worst kind. Do they really believe that the worst thing that would happen is that a boat rusts and a tower falls over, if all humans vanished in thin air instantly? Are they trying to soothe us?
The whole earth would be a smoldering wasteland within a few years of that happening.
5 minutes after people: all cars, buses and trailers would have crashed. Some of those crashes would start fires. We are talking a hundred million vehicles moving at any one time worlwide, or a figure in that order.
An hour after people: by now, a lot of trains and shore-bound ships would have crashed, many at full speed, causing numerous fires, oil spills and widespread destruction in general. There are over 40 000 fires reported in New York city alone every year, meaning more than 100 per day on average. Every major city worldwide which bases its heating and cooking on gas (pretty much all of them) would be burning.
A day after people: There are at least a 100 000 big ships in the world, and of course many more smaller craft. In the English Channel alone there are thousands at any one time. They carry thousands of tons bunker and crude oil, and all of them would eventually hit something and spill all of that oil. A large amount of shoreline worldwide would be covered in oil, causing lasting (but not permanent) damage to the coastal ecosystem.
Calculating how the burning of the world's populated areas, which might spread to forests and other less populated areas, would damage the Earth is of course a huge task, but I think there is a distinct possibility that all of that ash and smoke going into the atmosphere might bring about a "nuclear winter" that could last years or even decades.
We're talking mass extinction on a scale we only know about in the archaeological record. Destruction that the Earth might need millennia, or longer, to recover from.
A building falls over? This series pi$$ed me off!
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