Wall-E: The Effects Of Pollution On The Earth

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Pollution seems to be a touchy subject. All industrial countries seem to have it but nobody knows how to deal with it without their businesses failing. Thanks to the industrial revolution over the past hundred years the planet as slowly but surely becoming a waste land covered with smog and trash. Because the human race has been so careless about their trash, it has affected nature such as polluting water, air and the actual land.
Although water is a non renewable resource meaning that it cannot be reproduced and humans cannot live without water, people still do not take care of the water humans have left. Factories are usually located close to water sources because water can be a power source and more importantly water helps transport the factories products to other countries for the people to buy. Because factories are more concerned with mass production of their products instead of carefully and safely making their products, pollution is a huge problem created from the factories. Many times any waste created will not be properly be disposed of and
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In the movie, the Earth is covered in so much trash that the humans had to leave the Earth and live in a spaceship. Hopefully while I am living on the Earth nothing like that will happen but at the rate that we are polluting the Earth something like that could happen. Just like when water is polluted by the factories, the land is also polluted. Although factories play a major role in polluting the Earth, a singular people’s trash multiplied by as many people on the planet causes a huge increase in pollution. If you look on the side of any road especially on the highways, fast food trash will cover the entire side. Pollution is increases faster than humans can even pick it up and even once we pick it up it is thrown into a huge garbage pile that will never be able to go

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