《没有我们的世界》,名列《时代》杂志年度非虚构图书榜首,在这部经典科普作品的开篇,美国作家艾伦·韦斯曼展现了这样的图景:人类消失后没几天,纽约曼哈顿地铁系统洪水泛滥,逐渐开始腐蚀城市的根基。现代化大都市迅速分崩离析。这段描述唤起了我的记忆。我所居住的小城曾经在近年两度遭遇大水围城。豪雨倾盆而下,水泥覆盖的路基已经没有多少土壤可以渗透雨水, “Without Our World,” ranked in the top of the non-fiction book of the year for the magazine Time magazine, American author Alan Wesman opens the scene of this classic science piece: A Few Days After Humankind Disappears, New York Manhattan subway flooding system, and gradually began to erode the city’s foundation. The modern metropolis quickly collapsed. This description evoke my memory. The town I live in was once twice hit by the fortress in siege in recent years. Heavy rain pouring down, the cement-covered subgrade has not much soil can penetrate the rain,