Summary and Response
Have you seen the movie Wall-E? That movie is our future generation’s world. If you haven’t seen the movie it is about our world in which it is being destroyed. In Chip Ward’s “Letter of Apology” (2012), it explains how the human race is destroying the most essential things on earth. It also mentions how bad we want oil, the same oil that we are sucking the earth dry from. We are using all of the oil, the fertile soil is being ruined, and the fresh water is being poisoned. At speed we are going our future generations are not going to have anywhere to live. The world is going to be destroyed. The world has used almost all of the oil supply on unnecessary items. “Rocket fuel, fertilizer, baby bottles, lawn chairs: we made everything and anything out of oil and could never get enough of it” (Ward, 2012). First off, oil is used to fuel vehicles and big machinery but, the world is capable of …show more content…
To start it all off big holes are being dug up so waste can fill them. Another fact, items are being burned; giving off toxic chemicals and gases. The toxic gases travel up to the atmosphere and continue to deteriorate the ozone layer. The population also managed to ruin what they are most privileged to; green grass and clear water. The water is poisoned with waste. People trust bottled, chemical filled, and unnatural water over the real thing; tap water. There use to be no worries to play in the water. Now there are warning signs, warning people of hazardous waste and poisons. “-glaciers are melting away, wells are running dry, dust storms are blowing, and rivers like the mighty Colorado are running dry before they reach the sea.” (Ward, 2012). Like Ward said about the wells running dry, what are we to do when there is no water, how are we going to live? The world is turning into the waste that we have created and we need to change it. Our future generations have to suffer the consequences of our