Description
Watch the ORIGINAL Video the Lorax shown in the resource links. It covers a number of environmental resource depletion and waste issues.
ASSIGNMENT: Create a LIST of environmental resource or pollution issues from the video. You should be able to easily come up with at least 6 or 7 issues.
Once you have done that, write a three page double spaced paper relating the movie, the Lorax to Santa Clara County or another large metropolitan area you are familiar with. This can be anywhere in the world.
Questions:
- Do you see any similarities? What are they? Explain in detail.
- What environmental, social and economic challenges were caused? Be sure to cover all three. What problems do they cause?
- How specifically could we live a more sustainable and biocentric lifestyle?
- What lessons does the video, The Lorax teach us? Give a DETAILED answer and connect your answer to a theory or principle covered in this class thus far.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE ISSUES
Environmental Resource Depletion and Waste Issues
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE ISSUES
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Environmental Resource Depletion and Waste Issues
Environmental resource depletion entails the consumption of a resource in a faster way
than it can get replenished (Harper, & Snowden, 2017). Waste issues involve dumping of
unwanted solid material leading to serious environmental degradation and eventually forming
landfills. Today, environmental resource depletion and waste management issue have become
one of the most serious problems globally, leading to health complications and disappearance of
the past natural heritage.
Part I
List of Environmental Resource and Pollution Issue
In the video, The Lorax by Jefronty in 2013, the author reflects on various environment
resources and pollution issues, for instance,
I.
Felling trees as an industrial raw material
II.
Air pollution through industrial and vehicles exhaust fumes
III.
Water pollution
IV.
Fruits and trees depletion
V.
Releasing untreated industrial effluent
VI.
Dumping solid waste in rivers
VII.
Fish disappearance due water pollution
Part II
Similarities between the Video and Santa Clara County
In comparison with the video, The Lorax by Jefronty (2013), Santa Clara County reveals
a number of similarity in term of environmental resource depletion and pollution issues. Some of
the environmental issues evident in the county include the water and air pollutions, such as toxic
ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE ISSUES
dumping, carbon monoxide, pesticides, lead poisoning and heavy metal in soils and streams in
the area. Water pollution in Santa Clara is evident with a heavy dumping of trash in...