Aftermath: Population Zero

00:00:00 Planet Earth: a place of constant change at the hands of powerful beings:

00:04:08 Take away eight million people from New York

00:07:58 Seconds later, blackouts sweep through parts of Ontario and New York.

00:11:57 Changes are also taking place at some natural gas facilities.

00:15:13 The pool is 30 feet deep and filled with 400 tons of spent nuclear fuel

00:19:00 These hungry lions have spotted another escapee from the zoo.

00:23:20 The temperature starts to rise.

00:27:10 will be dangerous for 300 years.

00:30:42 For large animals like deer

00:34:36 winter.

00:38:01 but our radioactive fingerprint is starting to disappear.

00:41:33 Earth's inhabitants watch a new kind of light show.

00:45:19 are strewn along seashores or rusting on the sea bottom.

00:48:58 Water gets into the cracks and the frames get weak.

00:52:56 nothing can stop the rain from flooding the concrete skeleton

00:56:05 The temperature drops.

00:59:21 The urban jungle becomes a new killing ground.

01:03:11 its casinos and fountains used water brought in by electric pumps.

01:07:00 When winter storms produce unusually high snowfall

01:10:59 lost when humans dammed up the Mississippi.

01:15:15 and it's been standing now for centuries

01:19:30 and it's littered with copper plates.

01:23:23 These furry beasts are the descendants of millions of beef cattle.

01:27:31 but after we disappear