“Lorax: The Guardian of the forest”

By Charalambia Chacholi U194N2890

Sustainability, a word which every single person on this planet has heard, said or read it somewhere, on a label maybe, but what is that word at the end of the day? Sustainable means that as a person it accomplishes it’s needs by not “harming” the future out there, being more ecological and not depending on the manufacture products that are destroying the environment

The movie “The Lorax” is based on a children’s book written by Dr Seuss where his main focus is the deforestation of Earth which he wanted to educate the younger generation in order to prevent at least the massive catastrophic of Mother Earth Dr Seuss’s book was then cancelled due to the fact that he called out the big companies that are destroying the environment without anyone noticing

Lorax as a character represents all the animals, the plants and every living creature that is living in the forest and their lives are affected negatively by the environmental issues that are happening, that is why they call him “the guardian” of the forest

The plot is starting with a twelve-year-old boy named Ted Wiggins whose goal was to get a real tree for the girl he wanted to impress and the particular reason for that was the artificial trees and planting that was all over their town. Without the real trees people had to breathe oxygen through some masks that the big companies were selling making tons of money out of it

When Ted heard all that story about the trees past, he felt horrible and wanted to make a change, Once-ler gave him the last seed of the Truffula tree and told him to plant it and to make a movement so that more people care enough to make the change He found out about Lorax who spoke about the animals and the trees who have “no tongues” themselves but at the he could not save them with his speaking, but now with Ted he could at least try again to make the change. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better ” (Dr Seuss, 1971)

The same can happen and to the present day, there is a different of 50 years approximately and the issues are still the same in 2023, there is a deforestation, polluted environment, plastic in the ocean, gas, polluted air, in the Antarctica the ice is melting leaving the polar bears without a home and in the parallel time ocean’s level is rising up, overfloating small islands and cities like Venice, Italy where people need almost a boat and not a car to move around in the city and the particular

The root of a good knowledge about sustainability and climate change starts from the right education of the kids To save the next generations and to create a livable environment not only for humans but also for the animals themselves there needs to be a change to the way people live, meaning that every single person on this planet needs to start thinking “green”, “If we, as consumers, are so easily swayed by the next big thing, without regard for how it is made, then this is the world we will end up with ” (Dr Seuss, 1971.

To do so an individual needs to make their own research on the products they purchase from companies, because something says that it is “green” it does not necessary means that it is automatically sustainable. A lot of big companies do that in order to outsmart the consumer but with the research of each one it can outsmart at the end the company.

To sum up everything that has been stated so far, if at least one person cares enough to make a change like Ted in “The Lorax” then they can turn around everything, then there is still hope to get out of this climate change, to save Mother Earth like Ted did with his Earth.

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