Lorax: Today's Issues Expressed In The Movie

Today’s Issues Expressed in the Lorax

In 1971, a powerful children’s story depicting the lives of the citizens of Thneedville, the town where people had to buy air, was released. It changed the lives of many and brung up the discussion of the earth’s health in quite an interesting way. The message of the Lorax was not just for children, despite being the target audience, but for everyone. This story, the book and the movie alike expressed issues such as the effects of deforestation, pollution, and extinction of animals. These are the issues that still affect us today, in a world where these three things are happening every minute, everywhere. Deforestation is the removal of hundreds and even thousands of trees in an area. This is an issue today because people continue cut down trees and clear all forest life for it to be used in land for houses, malls, farms, and other places for humans to inhabit. As well as the products of the trees to make buildings and paper. In the Lorax, all of the trees were cut down to make a “Thneed”, which was made out of the leaves of the trees in the story. This is what caused all of the fresh air to vanish, because without trees and other plant life, we would not have as much oxygen as we need to breathe.

In many countries like China where there is many factories producing large amounts of toxic fumes, the air quality is very low, causing many people and animals to have respiratory issues and the air to smell very poorly. This can be made worse by sludge, a chemical substance that is dumped into any water source. Making it undrinkable and killing animals in and around the water. In the Lorax, it is shown that the factory used to make the “Thneed” produced many forms of pollution including chemicals that made a child glow when exposed to the