Where the Grickle Grass Grows

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There once was a young boy who went to visit the Once-ler, who lived at the far end of town where the Grickle grass grows. Every now and then he would tell the stories of the Bar-ba-loots in their bar-ba-loot suits, Swomee swans singing their songs, Hummingfish humming and swimming in the pond, but most importantly the Truffula Trees swaying in the wind. One day the Once-ler stumbled upon a truffula tree and decided that the leaves of the trees were so soft that they would make the perfect fabric for this Thneeds, so he chopped one down and out sprang the Lorax, He speaks for the trees. Soon the Once-ler had started clear-cutting the Truffula Trees causing a shortage on Truffula fruit, and the carrying capacity to decrease. Although the Bar-ba-loots were sad they has to migrate to a place that could feed them all. Soon after the air pollution was so bad that the smog clogged the Swomee swans so badly they couldn’t sing anymore, so they left in search of a more rural area. Then there was the Hummingfish, all they did was mind their business but no matter all of the Once-ler’s waste had to go somewhere. Where did his waste go? Lets ask the Hummingfish, oh no the hummingfish can hum! The waste from the Once-ler went into their pond! That horrible point-source pollution is causing them to leave, oh those Hummingfish need to breath! Oh no! The land has been Desterified and the ecosystem is gone! “Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them” this is shown well in The Lorax, it shows how cutting down a forest not only affect those who need them to survive but also humans because all in all we will have less food. Although The Lorax is a childrens movie it shows all...

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..., power plants, roads, public transportation. This is demonstrated when all the trees were clear-cut a urban sprawl took place which is when a city expands so fast that it expands into the countryside. The built a lot of infrastructure to support the fast changing they weren't build “up to code”. This damages the land and makes it so the previous ecosystem can’t try to fix itself.
The Lorax shows many economical problems that young children wouldn’t understand. With the Air pollution, the Water Pollution, clear-cutting, the urban sprawl, and the infrastructure. All of these things have had small and large effects, but alltogether they destroyed the animals homes and habiat. By keeps our Air pollution down, our water polluion to a minimum, avioding clear-cutting, and watching our infrastructure, we can save many endanged species and help keep this planet alive.

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