"The Earth After Us" is a fascinating journey into the distant future, one hundred million years ahead, when humanity will disappear from the surface of the globe. Imagine that people, like dinosaurs once did, left numerous traces of their existence, and now some highly developed extraterrestrial civilization studies them to reconstruct the past. What story will the mountains and rocks tell about us? What fossils will people leave behind? What will happen to cities, cars, plastic and other waste of modern civilization? Making fascinating excursions into the history of the Earth, telling about various aspects of its functioning and simultaneously telling the reader about the development of geological science, the author puts forward assumptions about what the legacy of the Homo sapiens species will be and what impact - subtle or catastrophic - it will have on its planet.