Today is Earth Day. Earth Day was started in 1970, and is celebrated every year. It's now celebrated in more than 192 countries to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
Long before "Being Green" was mainstream, there was The Lorax First published in 1971,this classic by Dr Seuss starts in the future and narrates the past. The reader sees the bareness of the land first, and then learns the causes for the damage to the environment.
It's a cautionary tale stated simply and powerfully about the nature of greed and environmental destruction. Still, Dr. Suess does not make this story into a gloomy one.
He gives us hope. The Once-ler tosses down a seed to the boy; the one last remaining Truffula seed. With this one seed, Dr. Seuss shows that it is not too late. Hope does not need to be lost. Possibilities remain...
""UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not."
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