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Easter Island Vs. The Lorax By Dr. Seuss

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Easter Island vs. The Lorax While “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss was a fictional story and the story of the people of Easter Island is real, they both showed examples of modern environmental issues. “The Lorax” had many hidden messages underneath the children’s story and the Polynesians showed us what would happen to society if we don’t learn from their mistakes. “The Lorax” messages included how bad our environment is in modern society and also had a few life lessons added in. Some environmental issues Dr. Seuss expressed of our society are: air and water pollution, deforestation, and overpopulation. At the same time the Polynesian people already showed us multiple examples of what could go wrong if we as human beings do not take care of our environment. Dr. Seuss had examples to represent …show more content…

They didn’t exactly think of their actions at the time because they were thriving. But because they were a small group of people on a small island full of resources, they eventually overpopulated. When you have overpopulation you use up your resources way faster because you need your people to survive. Well in the end because of not planning ahead of what they were doing, they used up all their resources. They had eaten all species and ran out of trees to make materials from. Unfortunately nobody really cared until they were fighting for what was left of these resources. This is extremely similar to the “The Lorax”. Dr. Seuss uses the Once-ler’s family to represent human beings. When he tells him to come they overpopulate. This realtes to the Polynesians when everybody comes and starts taking down resources at a faster rate because people need more. The Once-ler only realizes what hes done once he cuts dowm the last tree. Fortunately for him he gets the luxury of redeeming himself unlike the Polynesian people who resorted to eating each other in order to

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