Idiocracy Documentary Analysis
Is Pollution the Death of Us?
The world has been faced with many problems and pollution is one of them. Most people living on earth do not fully understand that polluting the earth comes with a lot if consequences. Imagine waking up in a world where garbage mask the streets. Imagine in a world walking out of your home into knee deep waste of old food, plastic, aluminum wrappers, old furniture, rusty metals, dirty old clothing and hazardous chemicals. As if we were pushing your way through like you are walking in knee high water. In the movie Idiocracy directed by Mike Judge, it showed how this world could possibly be in the future. The characters Joe and Rita were chosen by the military in year 2005 to do a secret military hibernation experiment. …show more content…
Ecological Destruction is the degrading of the environment and resources such as air, water and soil. America make up 5 percent of the earth’s population and yet consume about 30 percent of its natural resources. So imagine the rest of the world using up the reminder of our natural resources. We all know that we need trees of which is responsible for the air we breathe. But yet we cut them down to make paper, if each person can recycled their paper for one day worth we can save about 75,000 trees. In the movie Idiocracy there was barely any vision of trees seen. However, there was wrappers, paper materials in the garbage spread all over the floor. In addition the abundance of cars that was driving the streets, giving out carbon dioxide, when it wasn’t even necessary for them to drive, they could have just walk. Billions of plastic material are made year but one percent finds it way in a recycling bin. Which is very dangerous if mammals and birds come across the plastic and ingest it, causing them to choke and die. Then there is the 16 tons of sewage that is dump in the water each day. That sewage contaminates the fresh and salt water and harming animals in the sea. A single quart of motor oil that is dumped in the trash can also contaminate millions of gallon of
The world has been faced with many problems and pollution is one of them. Most people living on earth do not fully understand that polluting the earth comes with a lot if consequences. Imagine waking up in a world where garbage mask the streets. Imagine in a world walking out of your home into knee deep waste of old food, plastic, aluminum wrappers, old furniture, rusty metals, dirty old clothing and hazardous chemicals. As if we were pushing your way through like you are walking in knee high water. In the movie Idiocracy directed by Mike Judge, it showed how this world could possibly be in the future. The characters Joe and Rita were chosen by the military in year 2005 to do a secret military hibernation experiment. …show more content…
Ecological Destruction is the degrading of the environment and resources such as air, water and soil. America make up 5 percent of the earth’s population and yet consume about 30 percent of its natural resources. So imagine the rest of the world using up the reminder of our natural resources. We all know that we need trees of which is responsible for the air we breathe. But yet we cut them down to make paper, if each person can recycled their paper for one day worth we can save about 75,000 trees. In the movie Idiocracy there was barely any vision of trees seen. However, there was wrappers, paper materials in the garbage spread all over the floor. In addition the abundance of cars that was driving the streets, giving out carbon dioxide, when it wasn’t even necessary for them to drive, they could have just walk. Billions of plastic material are made year but one percent finds it way in a recycling bin. Which is very dangerous if mammals and birds come across the plastic and ingest it, causing them to choke and die. Then there is the 16 tons of sewage that is dump in the water each day. That sewage contaminates the fresh and salt water and harming animals in the sea. A single quart of motor oil that is dumped in the trash can also contaminate millions of gallon of