Wall-E: Urbanism, Helath Care, Population, and Social Movements

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In the movie Wall-E by John Carter, a robot by the name of Wall-E has a life job of cleaning up the Earth that had been destroyed and polluted by the human race as it became overpopulated and contaminated by too much urbanization. When Wall-E meets a robot by the name of Eve, who’s mission is to find a source of life on Earth, he travels to the spaceship that holds the entire population of Earth in order to save Eve. While saving Eve, he discovers how the human race is unable to care for themselves, and need to be persistently cared for by on-board robots. Wall-E, utilizes various sociological concepts such as population, social movements, urbanization, and health care throughout the movie to display the impact that overpopulation and urbanization has upon the human race, leading for the need of increased health care.
In the beginning of the movie, viewers witness Wall-E cleaning up what seems to be an unpopulated and uninhabited planet Earth. Since, Earth had become so over populated by humans the Earth had become trashed and hard to live on which caused a tremendous change in temperature, or global warming, and the lack biodiversity among Earth since their was no animals or plants left on Earth besides a small cockroach the Wall-E befriends (Wall-E). The display of the city that Wall-E is trying to clean up, is shown as being dirty, full of smog, and desolate from the over abundance of people within society. guevara 2
This view of the city reinforces Thomas Malthus’ principle of population because the earth had been so overpopulated that it could no longer support natural resources due to the lack of uncontrolled population. Due to the lack of population control, the Earth had become uninhabitable as it can be assum...

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...cannot sustain life and will end up needing persistent health care in order to try and maintain life due to their detachment from society as technological advances continue. With the help of Wall-E, he drives society to create a new social movement in trying to re-inhabit the Earth and take care of the natural resources that the Earth uses to sustain societies well being.

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"Wall-E." Amazon.com: : Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon: Amazon Instant Video. N.p., 2008. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. .

"Sociology: Pop Culture to Social Structure [Paperback]." Sociology: Pop Culture to Social Structure: Robert J. Brym, John Lie: 9781111833862: Amazon.com: Books. Wadsworth, n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. .

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