The World Without Us

Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory (AZ), 55

Cassava, 2–3

cast iron

deterioration of, 18

Catal Hoyuk, 106

cattle, 65

Maasai people and, 82–83, 84–86

cats

population of, 197–98

as predators, 197–98

survival of, 37

Cavinder, Allan, 91–92, 93–95

Cental Park (NYC), 22–24

animal life, 36–37

coyotes in, 33–34, 36

nonnative invaders, 30, 30–31, 30–31

Shakespeare Garden, 30

statue of Waladyslaw Jagiello, 21–22, 247

CCZ (Civilian Control Zone, Korea), 183

wildlife, 188

cement

deterioration of, 19–20

CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), 204–5

Chambura Gorge, 47–49

Chang-Hee, Ahn, 183

Changes in the Land (Cronon), 147

Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc (France), 101

chemical fertilizer, 74

chemical weapons

Rocky Mountain Arsenal (CO), 207–8

chemicals

DDT, 74, 129, 159, 196

Dieldrin, 74

EDCs (endocrine-disrupting chemicals), 124

insecticides, 74

PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), 125–26, 156, 159, 267

and plant life, 29, 31

See also

petrochemicals;

plastics;

soil

Chernobyl (Russia), 214–16, 217, 267

Pripyat, 216

wildlife, 217–18

Zone of Alienation, 215, 218

Chesser, Ronald, 217

chicha, 1, 2–3

Chile

Clovis people in, 60

chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), 45, 47–48

and AIDS, 86–87

bonobos, 50–51

Pan prior, 46–47, 49

China

scrap iron and, 133

Chinese ailanthus tree, 26–27, 29, 32

Chinese tallow tree, 140–41, 143–44

Chocolate Bayou (TX), 136, 139

Church of Euthanasia, 242

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future (Hughes), 224

Clark, William, 54

Clovis people, 197

and animal extinctions, 58–60

megafauna, hunting, 61–64, 80

coal

mountaintop removal, 221–23

clean, 222

Cohen, Andy, 43

Coleman, John, 197–98

Colinvaux, Paul, 257

Colonial Pipeline, 132–33

Columbus, Christopher, 71, 259

Constantia Hotel (Varosha, Cyprus), 91

See also

Palm Beach Hotel

Cook, Captain James, 28, 112

copper

and corrosion, 245, 246, 246–47, 248

coyotes

in Central Park, 33–34, 36

success of, 150

Cro-Magnons, 101

Cronon, William, 147

Crosby, Alfred, 29

Cuevas, Johnny, 177–79, 180

cultural objects

ceramics, 247

museums and museum vaults, durability of, 37

survival of, 245–47, 247–48

textiles, 247

Cyprus, 92–93

archeological discoveries, 98–99, 101

developers and, 99–100

ethnic hatred, 92, 98

Greek/Turkish partition, 91–92, 92–93, 96, 99

Greek Republic of Cyprus, 96

history, 97–98, 98

trees of, 97–98