Air Pollution Depicted In The Movie Wall-E.

WALL-E Environmental Essay

“Almost half of the U.S population lives in areas where pollution levels are often dangerously high for them to breathe,”- American Lung Association. The Massachusetts institute of technology shows that 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S.A. are caused by pollution. In this essay you will see how these statistics line up with the movie Wall-E.

In Wall-E by the time it’s the year 2105 earth becomes so covered in garbage and pollution that without special gear, it was no longer habitable. This forced humans to leave earth until it was safe to return. In real life pollution is already having an impact on ecosystems, animals, and humans. Data collected by the Global Burden of Disease project show more than 5.5 million deaths occur each year due to air pollution. Air pollutants like carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide are fatal at high concentrations. Carbon

In Some parts of north america, air pollution is so high that if you breathe the air for a period of time it can cause severe damage and sometimes death. In the U.S air pollution causes as much as 50,000 deaths per year. For example, currently in Spokane the AQI can problems for people with lung problems. In Fresno and Madera the pollution over time can increase the risk of asthma, heart disease, COPD(Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and diabetes. Even in most urban areas the amount of air pollution increases the chance of getting strokes, heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic/acute respiratory diseases. Based on a list from Sustainability for all, the top five countries that produce the most pollution are China, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, and Japan. Each of these countries contain so much air pollution that the air is harmful to breath, they also have bodies of water with so much pollution in them that animals that live in them are