I created a machine that can transport matter to and from an identically parallel Earth. The only twist is that on this Earth, primates never evolved into anything more intelligent than chimpanzees. Our line never branched off from the common ancestor. No humans, no neanderthals, no homo floresiensis, nothing – if it was more man than ape, it never existed on this Earth.
So we’ve got a pristine, wild Earth. Unpolluted, uncivilized, and not so much as a pottery shard or any sign of man. I’ll send you and whatever/whoever you can fit into a standard shipping container (40x8x8 or so). What would you want to do there?
Me? I’d love to fish it. I could just imagine the lakes, rivers, and seas teeming with fish that have never seen a lure before and are free of mercury and PBCs. I’d also love a North American safari/trek if only to see if any charismatic mega-fauna from the Pleistocene thrived in our absence. I can only imagine what the massive old-growth forests would be like.
And just why would the fish be free of mercury? PCBs, yes, but mercury? And are you sure that fish have evolved to avoid lures? Most animals would be just as wary since there are plenty of predators besides us, at least on the large continents.
Seriously, interspecies diseases would be minimal given that the two most common hosts for interspecies disease spreading are chickens (which might not even exist or be geographically isolated) and domestic hogs (which would be wild, and not living in the close proximity required for transfer of disease).
Because we dumped the mercury. Naturally occurring oil and heavy metals pollution is dwarfed by what we’ve done in just a century.
Heavily fished areas do seem to develop a lure type awareness. Regardless of whether that proves out, naturally regulated balanced fish ecosystems would put our current populations to shame. It would be like the early days of cod and halibut fishing only better. You’re the only boat out there.
It sounds very pretty, but I’m very much a modern times and technology girl. I got dragged around to all the hunting/fishing/camping crap I could stand when I was a kid. NOT fun for a girl who’s a solid city girl at heart.
All of the things I love involve modern society and technology. So I’d not be one to sign up.
I’d have the shipping container converted to a comfortable, liveable cabin that’s capable of sustaining me “off-grid”, with solar panels, a kitchen with propane, a comfy bed, the works…It’d be heaven to use it as the ultimate retreat for a week or so.
It’s kind of weird to picture, but there were actually farms on Manhattan in the 1600’s. Country roads, take me home, to the place, I belong, New York City…
Set myself up on one of the larger oil wells that history states should exist and make myself one of the most powerful people on New Earth by selling said petroleum to other newly-arrived settlers.
In the event of the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse on Earth Prime (this planet), FeralEarth (human-free Earth in the OP) would be my ultimate Bug Out Lair
I’d create an off-grid self sufficient dwelling (log cabin with a huge underground living area) to escape to, along with a selection of attractive female companions, the outdoorsy self sufficient type, gotta live in harmony with the planet
