Taking on the troubles of replenishing our Earth - Evie Cantú

 Recently I rewatched the movie Wall-E and it definitely has a very strong connection to environmental matters; the whole movie is built off it really.  The movie follows a robot named Wall-E who is in charge of compressing trash together into little blocks to make them easier for disposal. The earth around him is dead and completely uninhabited, besides a little cockroach, wall-E is completely alone. That is until EVE lands on Earth from a massive spaceship, her goal at first is unknown, but wall-E falls completely in love with her. Later in the movie we learn that EVE is looking for any sign of plant life, and when Wall-E presents her with a seedling he found, she has to return to her spaceship. Wall-E tags along with her because he worries for EVE, and in the end also ends up on the same spaceship. The ship has many people on it who originally left Earth because the Wall-E robots were supposed to clean the Earth, and when the plan didn’t work- the humans decided to stay in space for 700 years. However, seeing that EVE brough a plant back the captain of the ship decides that they are due for a visit back. After some conflict between our two robots and an evil robot that doesn’t want to return to Earth, they finally do after some time. Even though the Earth is damaged when they get there, the humans don’t shy away from helping to replenish the Earth. Once again, the summary is incredibly choppy- but like I said with Princess Mononoke, it can definitely be applied still to modern day. There are some people who think that the Earth is too far gone to save, but that’s not the case at all- the Earth can still be saved, but it just needs some help from us.

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