I picked the movie Wall E for this movie report because I think the movie is prevalent to what our world today could become possibly in the near or distant future. The movie is about a little robot named Wall E who is on Earth compacting trash into mounds that are insanely high. The world is a desolate place where no one lives and all the resources are depleted. Wall E finds his way to the ship in space where all the humans live and you can see what not living on Earth has done to their bodies. There are many environmental issues that you can pick from in this movie and I have chosen the issue of pollution.
The problems of landfills have become a bit of an issue in our world today that needs to be addressed. “The U.S. alone there is 3,091
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active landfills and over 10,000 old municipal landfills according to the Environmental Protection Agency” (ZeroWasteAmerica).
That is an appalling amount of landfills that are in the United States. They retire landfills because a leakage breaks out into the ground or into a body of water. The majority of landfills are close by or right next to some type of body of water. When the landfill begins to leak the disgusting leakage goes into the water and starts to kill the living organisms in the water as well as affecting us humans. Many people do not know but they just might be swimming, tubing, or etc… in the extremely contaminated water. There are many toxins that could be in the water or the in the ground, a few of them are “mercury, arsenic, cadmium, PVC, solvents, acid, lead, and… leachate which is a liquid formed when waste breaks down in the landfill and water filters through that waste. It is highly toxic” (EnviromentVictoria). The most lethal toxins in the group that I just listed are mercury, lead, and leachate. A small dose of that could possibly kill you imagine that being leaked into the ground and our waterways and coming to areas that us humans use day in and day out. Another problem is greenhouse gases being released into the
atmosphere. Greenhouse gases are “When organic material such as food scraps and green waste is put in landfill, it is generally compacted down and covered. This removes the oxygen and causes it to break down in an anaerobic process. Eventually this releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.” (EnviromentVictoria). It is common knowledge that too much Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not healthy for you but imagine inhaling methane. As I previously stated methane is 21 times more lethal than Carbon dioxide, which is insanely high risk to our personal health as well as the health of the world. The gas is also extremely flammable so if the concentration of the gas is to high I hope that no one lights a match because the whole room will go up in flames. The movie Wall-E showed that our world today is good and all even though we have our ups and downs but if we do not find a way to fix the pollution problem that we have it will hurt us in the long run. For anyone who has seen the movie Wall-E you see the way Earth has become, it has become a desert pretty much with mounds and mounds of trash piled up on top of each other. There is not a single piece of a living organism within sight. Americans began to become fat, lazy, and extremely technology reliant. The whole world should not let the Earth ever get to this point.
Harmful emissions from the landfills escape into the air we breathe. The soil and water are also contaminated from our
Landfills in America have taken many square miles of what used to be fertile land, forests and communities and that trend does not seem to have an end. The waste, we as Americans, dispose of each year is in the tons and that number rises annually. One of the reasons why this occurs is actually quite simple; population. Population in modern day America has soared to well above three hundred million, in 1915 that number was hundred million. Urbanization and industry has given way to deforestation and landfill creation. The need for more landfills has caused many health concerns, issues, and problems to not only those living near and
b. Another myth about landfills is that they are poisoning the soil and our water supply. Even the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, says modern landfills pose little to no risk to humans. Modern landfills are built on a thick foundation of clay and plastic liners. Also, the methane gas produced in biodegradation is often...
Everybody throws away trash with little or no thought about where it’s going. What you might not know is that a lot of trash goes into our ocean. You may think it is not a big deal and that it’s just a little bit of trash in a really big ocean, but it’s not just a little bit of trash. In fact, it’s a whole lot. There is a place between California and Hawaii called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, but is better known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. This area is the largest landfill in the world and is completely in the ocean. What are the effects of the landfill on the environment and how can it be prevented and rehabilitated to its original state?
Through the movie, James Cameron pointed out a stream of powerful themes that were so important to our modern world. The issues that were corporations destroying nature for profit, the lack of respect for creature livings were mentioned.
Essay 1 Wall-E is a movie produced by Pixar depicting Earth being unhabitable by humans and the use of robots to clean, filter, and find life, in the form of something that can photosynthesize, so humans can once again return to the planet. Robot Ethics is quite the opposite in terms of the targeted audience, which is definitely not children, to explain what it would take to make a robot harmless or completely natural in a societal setting. Wall-E implies that robots can learn compassion and formulate their own thoughts/override their programmed system given their individual situation. Although, in Robot Ethics, Lin, Abney, and Bekey state that not one individual robot can differentiate good from bad because robots are either meant to be a “landmine” or a caregiver.
There are thousands of landfills located around the earth. Many people believe when they put trash in their recycling bin it’s being treated like all of the other trash that can’t be recycled. However, that is not the case. Many researchers have discovered that more garbage was dumped in the landfills in 2012 than ever before. John T. Powell, a researcher from Yale University, used trade data to measure trash levels in the landfills. He also discovered that in 2012, a total 262 million tons of waste were dumped in the landfills.
Preview of Main Points: First of all, I will share with you what the film “Inconvenient truth” is all about. Secondly, I will discuss why people ignore the big picture and how we can help our planet.
In old batteries, there is a toxic lead that is causing health problems for the Taiwan people who are disposing these batteries (Gay, 12). Space is becoming a landfill from the excess of space flights and the radioactive supplies from nuclear reactors, which could come to our atmosphere and explode (Gay, 13). When businesses run out of space to dump their toxic trash they go to poor nations because they do not have strict safety regulations (Gay, 31). The landfills on Earth are not the only place trash is getting put. The ocean is being trashed with plastic bags, soda can holders, and large fishnets, which are harming dolphins, turtles, sea lions, and others (Gay, 69). Military bases in the U.S have more hazardous waste and are responsible for contamination in soil and waters (Gay, 83). There are other hazards happening because we are throwing away so much stuff that companies have to remake all of those products. Incinerators are places where waste is burned to ashes and if we recycle these can go away. Incinerators cause sulfur dioxide, carbon m...
ATTENTION GETTER: Every day, I see the effects of pollution. From the trash that’s thrown into bushes to the murky lakes to the smog-filled skies, these are examples of the negative human impact on the environment. PURPOSE (state specific purpose, relate topic to audience and establish credibility): The cars we drive every day release toxic exhaust gases into the atmosphere that damage it. We should try to do better to reverse these effects now; otherwise, our world will continue to get filthier and eventually become uninhabitable.
One of the films that deal greatly with the effects of overconsumption on the environment is the animated motion picture WALL-E (2008). The movie is set on Earth in the year 2805 where the Earth is a barren wasteland, void of any signs of life (save for cockroaches).
Purpose: The main objective for my presentation is to show the audience what recycling is and how we can cut down on landfills.
Traditional methods of waste disposal have proven to be ineffective and have caused harmful effects on the environment. The most popular and inexpensive way to get rid of garbage is burial, but burying your problems does not necessarily mean getting rid of them. Landfill sites pose as severe ecological threats as these mass garbage dump yards overflow with trash and frequently contaminate our air, soil and water with hazardous wastes. About 400 million tons of hazardous wastes are generated each year1. A large-scale release of these materials can cause thousands of deaths and may poison the environment for many years. For example many industrial companies around the world cannot afford to enforce the strict pollution regulations set by many developed countries. This usually forces these types of companies to move to developing countries where pollution regulations are very lenient. These developing countries knowingly accept environmentally hazardous companies usually because they are in desperate need of employment. The harmful effects of these companies were clearly illustrated in the 1960s and 1970s when residents living near Minamata Bay, Japan, developed nervous disorders, tremors, and paralysis in a mysterious epidemic. The root was later found to be a local industry that had released mercury, a highly toxic element, into Minamata Bay. The disaster had claimed the lives of 400 people1. Since 1970 you can bet that a lot more than 400 people have died as a result of waste disposal. If the type of waste disposal were cheaper and effective we wouldn’t have to deal with waste problems, which still plague mankind today.
...or lakes (Weber 2). When people just dump waste products instead of recycling, it is a misuse of the soil and can contribute to serious health conditions in animals, plants and humans.
The United States produces “about 8.25 billion tons of solid wastes each year” (Russell 1). People do not realize the impact they have on our planet and environment. When people throw anything in the trashcan, they are contributing to the destruction of our planet. The number landfills in the United States are decreasing, but the amount and volume of waste being thrown into the new landfills is increasing (Russell 4). Because of this escalating amount of garbage, Methane which contributes to global warming is an outcome of these landfills (Russell 7). As a result, our planet is suffering because of this epidemic. The garbage being put in the landfills could be recycled, but not enough businesses, ...