The Unsustainability of the Human Race and the Planet

The Disney film WALL-E warns society of what the world may become in the next 700 years. Although the film is very theatrical, and somewhat extreme, it gives a plausible way to show what life could be like if the human race continues in the direction it is going in. Sustainability is a main theme of the film. Sustainability is the way that something survives and flourishes throughout time. The movie encourages change to make the Earth sustainable again. The depletion of natural resources, the lack of attentivness, and the lack motivation in the human race are ways that have made the Earth unsustainable for humans. If the human race does not change and solve their problems effectively, it is a great possiblity that the world will turn into the barren planet from the film, and be forced to live on a cold ship in space. The depletion of the natural resources is a main issue for the unsustainability of the human race and the planet. People take more than they can replace. For example, it takes longer to grow an oak tree than it does chopping one down. The resource is not being sufficeintly replaced. Because of the wasteful attitude of humanity, not only are resources becoming more and more limited, but they are also contaminated and are harmful to the planet and the organisms that live there. In the movie, the character WALL-E was created to fix the problem of the mounds of trash, but the problem was not solved. The robot merely made the mounds of trash an organized mess. In society now, this is a major issue. Most cities have dumps, and soon those dumps will fill up, which will cause the creation of another city dump. This eventually will lead to what happened in the film, where the whole planet was literally covered in filth. Becuase of the contamination and excess use of resources, Earth became dry and desolate in the film. Sand storms were frequent, and the only living creature was a cockaroach. If humanity does not solve the problem soon and efficently, it is