Analysis Of The Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World is trademarked for being the “Happiest Place on Earth”, and attracts millions of people each year from all around the world. With 10,000 guests an hour visiting Walt Disney World, parks reach their carrying capacity of 100,000, within the 43 square miles of Disney property, almost all of the days that it is open year round (“Walt Disney World”). With this much land and this number of people coming and going from the property each day, one may be to believe that The Walt Disney Company has their eye on one thing and one thing only - Money. Although this may seem to be a reasonable assumption, Walt Disney World, along with the entire Walt Disney Company, is paving the way to a sustainable company in new environmentally friendly

“These films have taught us vicariously about having a fundamental respect for nature. Some of them […] inspired conservation awareness and laid the emotional groundwork for environmental activism” (Cohen 9). Although these aspects of the films that Disney has made are true, there is still a lot of work to be done before all of the films made with this same goal can be considered accurate. This includes having the correct and accurate environmental aspects within Disney cartoons and movies in the future. In previous movies, Disney animation has almost gone to the point of over-doing animated characters, including having flowers and trees talk. The consequence of anthropomorphism is that doing this has led some people to believe that it makes the environmental aspect of the characters hard to understand. Viewers of these cartoons perceive the environment through a hyper reality that is influenced even more through Technicolor and animation. With talking flowers and trees, as well as the ability to pick up their roots and move around, people, especially children, may believe that these characters couldn’t actually be in trouble in nature. Children are mislead to believe that these plants are able to communicate with us and that humans would never hurt

The Disney Wildlife Preserve is a 12,000-acre preserve for The Nature Conservancy. It is home to rare and endangered species, such as scrub jays and gopher tortoises, as well as bobcats, quail, wood storks, and black bears. The Disney Wilderness Preserve has a unique land mitigation program that unites the public and the private sectors throughout Florida. This program states that any construction in Florida that disturbs wetlands must be “mitigated” by restoring the wetlands disturbed by construction or creating new ones. The first attempt of this land mitigation program was not as successful as hoped because the wetlands were still being destroyed and just moved to a different location. “So Disney bought and turned over the former Walker Ranch- a wild parcel of land that had been slated to become a community of 25,000 with golf courses and a marina- to The Nature Conservancy” (Carlton 94). By doing this, Disney was able to save an important part of Florida’s wild wetlands for future generations. Along with The Disney Wildlife Preserve, the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund (DWCF) is another important component in Disney’s efforts to not only be a protector of the planet but an educator of children in the teachings of the values of conservation. The money that is behind the DWCF is used for financial support