The Lorax

The Lorax taught a valuable lesson. The Lorax is a story about the tree loving Lorax and the greedy Onceler. When the Onceler shows up, he notices a forest of truffula trees. He realizes that these natural resources could be profitable by making "THNEEDS" out of them. Thneeds are a "fine something" that people could use in their everyday life. In the process of making these thneeds, the onceler polluted the air, the water, and deforested the special truffulas. The lesson that was brought out of this story, was that natural resources can run out. At the beginning of the story when the forest was plentiful, there was no problem. However, as more and more trees started to get whacked down, the resource depleted, eventually leading to air pollution, and other resource pollution. I thought this movie was a good environmental awareness movie, because event though it was a cartoon, it held a very valuable message.