I'd go back even further and spend a day as the only human on earth. The biodiversity would be mind boggling. Not one piece of litter, every natural rescource untouched, truely the most beautiful planet in existence.

Mick Hill And very large animals that think you look like a tasty morsel......

So many frogs. They keep you up at night. How is that swamp and pond across the street now City Hall? But that's Manhattan for you, if you wanted less wildlife you would've stayed in Amsterdam.

They were all trees lol

@@chops6416 right, because you've seen so many other planets to be able to make that determination.

Oh I thought it was just me ... haha so true though

It got censored if you see the time stamp it looks different then, so strange

He pulled a compressed jpg from his floppy disk

@@innovatecoin9990 look at the sky in the time stamp. It's still pixelated images, you jsut can't notice that very well because of the size and compression

0:40

It can be reverted

Richard Rabinowitz yeah instead we have two gigantic airports on migratory paths

Hanoi Tripper how???

Hanoi Tripper Because I love agenda 21 and human bondage .

@@hanoitripper1809 lmao don't worry that's covered by north korea

That's great

pictures from 500 years ago?

@@spanishstudiolanguagecente4751 - no, pictures of what the area looked like is not the same as a photo from 500 years ago.

Great idea 👍

They do this If u look everywhere is a landmark

Yup the whole thing was like east of Bloomington, Indiana trees, rolling hills and water

Didn't YOUR PEOPLE do that?

Texas Guy that sure beats the internet. Count me in if you wanna jump in a hot tub and see what happens. And don’t go getting any funny ideas, I do not believe in time travel.

And the Dutch say that about every natural harbour. For 150 years every Dutch captains log book was half filled with joyous exclamations upon each new and weirdly, each already known natural harbour. Most every Dutch sailor learned to write or paid a shipmate so he could bore to teens loved ones with excited news of the latest natural harbour they came upon. In Dutch homes it would take well into the 19th century before people stopped letting mail pile to overflowing in the mailbox until the day before their loved one was due back when they would spend a mad 24 hours reading them all. People always ask, in times of such slow communication and unreliable schedules to say the least, how could anyone know within 24 hours when their loved ones came back. Truth is after hundreds of letters with no money but multiple pages on natural harbour they didn’t much care.

@@garyp3472 what the fack are you talking about

@@the4thindustrialrevolution225 Drugs

Amerigo Vespucci said the same and he predated the arrival of the Dutch by several decades. Vespucci also admired the beauty and fertility of the land and wrote respectfully of the Lenape people living there. How different Vespucci was from the horrible and cruel Columbus. I am Italian -> ever since I read a well-researched and thorough biography of Columbus I have been horrified and deeply ashamed that he is so honored in America. 😞He does not deserve any honor! He was a buffoon; thought he reached India!!

Its funny you say that because I do the same when I visit the city (in this case boston), but I feel like those who live in the city don't really think of it because for them everything there is just part of their day-to-day commutes or whatever else. You kind of have to take a step back to appreciate it.

I just chill at the grassy hills in yoyogi park.

I live in Sacramento, California. For the past year and a half, I've ridden to college which is about a 20 minute ride on a bicycle. For me the problem though is that often here in Sacramento it reaches 100 degrees fahrenheit and is even more often up in the 90s for a good half of the year which makes riding a bicycle not only uncomfortable but actually unhealthy. I would love to ride my bike year round but for 5 or 6 months it's just too hot.

Belgium

DEATH GRIIIIPS

Crime in America is much more prevalent then in Tokyo though

you should check out the elevator video from One World Trade. seeing it in person is awesome but its also on youtube

@@benparker384 I will check this out!

totally

@@benparker384 YES!! Was there last fall. Fascinating ride up to the top (or down).

Thanks for the resource.

Did you visit yet?

Aach. Me too!!🌿

True

No doubt about it, the current crop of humans suck

Permanent settlements resulted from agriculture. Before then, a hunting-gathering society shared their resources in order to survive. Agriculture allowed division of labor which resulted in the first unequal division of resources. Now we have 500 billionaires and 500,000 homeless people, but the life of the average person is more "convenient". I'm hoping we figure out a way to evolve society to something that's a little more logical.

@@kenmcnutt2 keep the population no more than 1 billion. Sorted

@@chops6416 That's one solution, just not the one I had in mind. How would you decide which billion to save?

Brent Ten FIRST comment I’ve found with an opinion other than, “We should destroy NYC,” or, “Eh, nature’s dumb anyway.” Btw, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

We don't need to grow though.

Yes!! believe it or not, I actually came here from that scene. I was so mesmerized by it...

Ha! I was going to say the same thing!

Devs is on Netflix, they also show some really cool scenes of history! Jesus on the cross, cavemen it’s really good show too.

See Russel Shorto’s book...

Absolutely right.

Then you started the decay

NYC was not founded by anyone; finding something assumes that it did not exist. there were people who lived there before it was "founded"

@@kabatake No Kwak. Otherwise all the city's on this earth never have been founded so they don't exist.

@Rinderend A Black Dominican actually.

@@kabatake New Amsterdam was founded by Peter Stuyvesant.

Arcturus Sirius - so you walk and I'll drive, fat and happy

@@wolfpak8228 As a real car guy.i take the bike to the center of a city. I wil see you turning rounds in the center,to find a parking place. While i am ready,and drinking a coffee on a terras.

Ford and GM ruined the American city by congesting them with smelly, dangerous cars, removed public transit, and created the abomination that is the modern suburb.

Only problem is that bike riders are weird and for the most part are assholes.

@@darkwoodmovies Agreed we should be way more dense and walkable.

10 years ago?

@@icecoldos Longer than that.

MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) bruh you responded after 10 years

@@icecoldos My original post was from about the same time the vid came out....and you responded to it 10 yrs. later. So what?

MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) that’s a real long time ago, I just don’t think I’ve ever seen a YT comment this old

Jose Martinez, and Los Angeles County.

That's not as interesting because those haven't been as terraformed as manhattan.

xcrunner trackrunner well Chicago used to be a wetland. Same as Milwaukee.

If everyone up and left LA it would revert back to be the large, sprawling desert it once was.

And Atlanta as well.

then stay out of the city, self righteous douche

I feel like I’m the only one that thinks cities are prettier and better than nature

Than go live in the forest you hippie. Big cities are the best thing in the world. Mankind did an awesome job.

TheFlamingOreo Nope, i agree.

watcherob I wouldn't call it "the best thing in the world". But they were a necessity after the industrial revolution.

This meme has no bounds. It's in every video haha

KEKO Production England was. Now Mexico is the biggest city in the U.S. now.

KEKO Production are you an idiot? NYC is the biggest city in America, not england

Just as stupid as Americans thinks Norway is the capital of Sweden; LOOOOOOL xD

KEKO Production makes a obvious joke, Free Dom calls him an idiot even though he IS the idiot. Then Alexbleks calls Americans stupid when he acting dumber than Americans. I love KZfaq. haha

In which way? Bigger and taller buildings? If so, we're seeing that already. It's a good sign of economic vibrancy. Definitely NOT static.

It would probably look like that movie Fifth Element by then.

In 2409 that city will be deep under water.

Same here, also I've been to Plymouth Mass. but never to Plymouth UK, even though it was just along the coast..

You're right, that's hilarious!

@@avega2792 I laughed for hours at this joke. I will frame this comment and pass it down to my grand children one day, and the children before them.

GoonOnFire - So let me in on the joke. They both went to somewhere far away but not to somewhere close by their home. I don't see what's so funny about that.

New York was not called after the city of York, but after the Duke of York. I live in Old Amsterdam and I have been several times to New Amsterdam. Love them both!

"I wish I could just see what the entire country looked like before we stole it from the natives" I just fixed it to look more logical 😉

came here looking for this!:)) It killed me too.

I noted that too.

@Sabrina Dugan Found the communist.

@@p0llenp0ny environmentalist more like.

0MindSwept0 exactly

I seen a documentary a long time ago..a native tribe story..and it said that today's Broadway street is the exact trail that the tribe would use to go get fresh water and fish..from the river and the coast.so yea it's crazy how it is..

Go live in the woods then you animal. Oh, you don’t want that do you?

Sabrina Dugan By "turned it into a crap hole" I think maybe you mean "built it into one of the affluent and important cities in human history." There's still plenty of nature upstate if that's what you're into

Sabrina Dugan you wanted to move to Chicago area, who are very grassy and weed of grass with concrete, who are filled with poverty with poor people and not renovate buildings? I’m Confused

Well, it`s done, big time...

There still plenty of natural land. The whole world isn't one big city

actually most of the world has been intervened in one way or another by humans (roads/rail/plastic pollution/fertilized runoff/mining/deforestation/agriculture/settlements)

You sure about that? Most of the world huh?

definitely has, no question, we are all fucked, the CO2 wont stop rising, nobody is willing to change.

get out of the city and you'll see

Russel Shorto described it in his books about New Amsterdam.

rd f true

NYC is a sewer compared to London. Disgusting and filthy.

Planet Earth is a beautiful planet, in spite of all these destructive, superioristic, capitalist money quests.

@@scasey1960 I've been to London and enjoyed it very much. But I did not find it to be clean.

rd f it’s a concrete jungle, no traditional architecture

There's definitely thousands of destroyed national parks around the work

And then that ”elsewhere” would ”destroy” the nature in the same way. With that logic, mankind has to erase it self from the face of the earth...which make no sense at all.

Ahh... Did you know that particular areas were inhabited due to deep water ports and access to the seas . I know that sounds like some evil “ white Patriarchy “ agenda , and all . But that’s how civilization was created , that how your cellphone and you’re over priced fancy coffee shops made it into existence . Isn’t that fascinating .

You don't "build" cities. They develop over time, and are usually founded for economic purposes.

Bc Ad what’s your qualification for saying that. This guy seems more than qualified and reliable academically and through experience

@@bojack40 this video is 10 years old, more recent findings and more modern computer models back up his claim

CB3474 I think what you can’t believe is the monumental destruction of the eco-system by mankind within several hundred years. Do you also fail to conceive of climate change?

It's the suburbs where few ppl live and displace and destroy both flora and fauna that are destroying the environment. Cities concentrate people leaving much more open land to cultivate or grow wild.

@@inkyguy nah. its the cities. Lol funny how the rich urban fucks tturn up their noses at rural people and "suburbia" "its not us its THEM!" The area of New York was an ecological goldmine. now its just one giant mass of concrete, glass, plastic, rubber and money.

@@inkyguy and you forget the suburbs of today are just the "urban" areas of tomorrow, just lile the urban areas of today were the "suburbs" of the past.

Mola Diver it'd have been very similair my dutch friend

Honestly I detest major roads. Traffic is just ugly and messy, Birmingham (UK) centre is overrun with cars in parts.

Mola Diver . bs if the whites didn't come & Indians keep the land New York was so beautiful so 😔. I'm south Jamaica qns . ...

Dutch slave trade? Whatt opps

One of the greatest examples of greed and human destruction.

Tina Huston One of the greatest examples of stupidity in all of KZfaq’s comment history.

Hi. Sincerely Dubai

Álvaro Bueno García You’re city is nothing but super tall buildings and a desert

@@TheFirstPatriot not my city (I'm from Spain) but I understand what you mean. I was just trying to be funny.

Do you mean the Old New York County Courthouse that was built at 52 Chamber Street when notoriously corrupt William ("Boss") Tweed was mayor of New York City? The construction of that courthouse cost the taxpayers 300 million $, which is the equivalent of 7 billion $ in today's currency.

Brooks Silber do you mean London, or are you implying that all of England is just one big city?

That would be great. But I think you meant London, lol. London has gone through so many changes since 100 AD.

I don't even know who's joking anymore.

2009

@iqbal padilla It was a a glacier before it was Native American land.

@@gogol293 Woolly Mammoth picnic, would be a great band name.