Environmental and Social Issues Explored in Wall-E and Trash

Environmental and Social Issues Explored in Wall-E and Trash

Trash and Wall-E explore social and environmental issues in several different ways throughout the book and movie respectively. In the movie Wall-E, there is no proper society as well as there being no sustainable environment. In the book Trash there isn’t a safe environment for the characters to live in, the social system in the book is a flawed social system.

In the movie Wall-E it shows us that there isn’t a proper society onboard the spaceship or a sustainable environment onboard. Onboard the spaceship we can see that there are no plants or animals on board the ship. This creates a problem because if there are no plants or animals onboard then the current and future generations will not be able to learn how to sustain life. When Wall-E accidently bumps one of the people's chairs, it looks like they ‘awaken’, they suddenly become aware of their surroundings and the people that wake up they start talking to people or robots and have a more real form of a social relationship. Before Wall-E woke the people up they were using a face cam and a microphone to talk to someone who was right next to them. This shows that the people have absolutely no real type of social communication or any knowledge of how to build a sustainable environment.

The book Trash tells us a story about a group of boys who are living in conditions that are appaling by social standards and they also live in an area that has no plants or fresh clean water available. The boys are dumpsite kids, dumpsite kids are children who were born on a dump and are supposed to live there for the rest of their lives and work there for barely enough money to pay for food or clean water. The society also hates them because of the fact that they stink of rubbish and sewage as well as being uneducated. None of it is their fault it is the society's fault, the