What If Humans Suddenly Went Extinct?

Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring this video! New subscribers get 20% off their first box of awesome — go to and enter code WHATIF20 at checkout. Whether it was a global pandemic, a planet-wide volcanic event or a gigantic space rock, we reached the end of the line for our species. Every single human on Earth is gone. For good. While there’s no hope for humanity to make a comeback, we’d be leaving behind a lot of stuff. Cities. Highways. Waste. Time to see just how long it would take for the last remaining traces of human life to disappear. Transcript and sources: 00:00 Countdown to human extinction 01:26 Thanks Bespoke Post! 03:17 One Week 05:03 One Year 06:12 50 Years 07:22 150 Years 08:13 500 Years 09:08 One Million Years 09:49 Five Billion Years Questions or concerns? Contact us at Get our 100 best episodes in one mind-blowing