"The earth doesn't need us. . ."

      I love Wall-e to death. I think he is the cutest robot in the world. HOWEVER, watching this movie in class genuinely started to freak me out.


      From talking in class, and by simply being a member of society, we all know that the way our earth is being treated is not positive. We know that as people in today's world, we take advantage of everything we have and everything that is provided to us by the earth. I thought I had an understanding of this, until I started watching Wall-e. Obviously, our world is not at such an extreme point as in the movie, but it is showing us right where we are headed.

      You don't realize just how bad things are, until you step back and take a second to take a look at the direction in which we are moving.

       I think the part that scares me so much about this movie is seeing how truly brainwashed humans get; how sucked into consumerism and materialist we become. While in present day it is no where near to how it is presented in the movie, it is easy to see the future of our world within this film. 

      I would like to believe that humans are smart then that. That humans are able to pull themselves away from our material possessions and focus a little more on the natural world around us. I know we have talked about this a billion times in class, but if people continue this downward spiral of littering, not recycling, and not caring, we are in for a world of trouble. 

      I believe it was Amber who in class said, "The earth doesn't NEED us...we NEED the earth". I don't think this could have been said any better. Without the earth, and without nature, we're destined years from now to end up in a world like the one portrayed in Wall-e.