Environmentalist ideas have been present in literature and art for centuries, with landscapes scenes and the appreciation of nature depicted in the brushstrokes of Patenir or the poems of Whitman. It was not until the late 1940s, however, that the modern environmental movement began to take shape with the passing of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the first federal regulation legislation passed to monitor water quality. Since then, environmentalism has blossomed from that single piece of legislation into several specific fields of study and career paths, and has created a topic of controversy among the United States’ population regarding conservation and sustainability. The movie Wall-E, an animated Pixar movie released in 2008, depicts
