In the book The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is a story about
a little boy who wants to know how the Lorax disappeared. He asks the
Oncler and her tell him the story about him making his factory and using up all
the Trufflela trees. In the story the Lorax tries to stop the
Oncler from cutting down all the trees. The Oncler simply did not listen so he
went on with cutting them all down. Slowly animals left and trees were scarce
and when the last tree was cut the Lorax was gone. What this story is telling
us is the affects of hurting our environment. A lot of deforestation is
happening right know. Some people choose not to stop it.
In the story the Oncler uses the trufflela
trees to make a thneeds. At first he doesn’t do any harm, he meant it for good
intentions. When the Lorax appeared to worn him he simply ignored wht the Lorax
was saying to him and when on to making factories and machine to make thneeds.
The Oncler thought the thneeds were going to be useful for everyone. He had all
good intentions but when to far. For example today many trees in needed areas
are being cut down because they need to build more homes for people their. Our
expanded population is leading to using more environmental materials. Materials
such as trees. Companies, factories and the government led us to deforestation
for the money, which is what the Oncler did. They may not do it with bad
intentions but their contributing to our deforestation.
Another reason is that when the Oncler starts making
all these cars that go out and cut many trees at once to make more sweaters each
time their are a lot of trees gone. Since they cut so many very quickly it led
them to only one tree left. The Lorax gives the Oncler his last warning about
cutting it off but he still goes on and cuts it. This is kind of predicting how
our future will be because when we use up all our trees, theirs only going to
be one left. When the Lorax disappeared its kind of also saying how will we
live without our trees? How will humans still be here to breathe and live if
their is no trees left. We are using trees just for the sake of it when we
should be preserving them and planting more of them then just cutting them
down. But at the end the Oncler gives the little boy the very last seed, which
gives us, hope that this will not the last of the trees but it could be.
This issue is happening everywhere in the world.
Many people are like the Lorax in the way that they want to try to preserve
nature and every that is natural and others like the Oncler who use these
resources to their benefit in hopes of economic success but end up hurting more
than gaining. I hope that people take this seriously and try to help out with
the cause.
