n personal use. Trees provide multifarious enhancements to today’s world, and humans are barbarously wiping them out one by one. If one tree was planted for every tree that was cut down, deforestation would be less of an issue in current day times, and would provide security for generations to come.
The theme of Catholic Social Teaching that best applies to deforestation is Care for God’s Creation. God called on us to take care of his world that He created for us. By disrespecting the Earth we are disrespecting God. Deforestation is harmful to both the planet and its inhabitants. It is Catholic duty to help protect the environment, and advocate for what God asked us to do in taking care of it. Catholics worldwide should take more action in helping to combat deforestation, and providing alternatives to harming God’s blessed creation.

Part 2: Movie Review and Analysis

The Lorax is a heart-warming adaption of Dr. Seuss’s children’s story The Lorax. Directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda, The Lorax explains the story of a young boy named Ted and his encounter with an odd man, The Onceler. In a society where clean air and plastic trees are provided by services, Ted travels to the outskirts of his town on the search for a living tree. The Oncelor goes on to tell Ted the story of how his business endeavors caused the trees to go extinct. The Oncelor told Ted about an orange, fluffy creature named the Lorax who was the Guardian of the Forest. Near the end of the movie, The Oncleor gives Ted the last tree seed, and Ted plants it in the middle of his town back home.
Renaud and Balda portrayed the deforestation aspect of The Lorax very accurately. When the Oncelor started to cut down the trees, the wonderful creatures and features of the land started to get sick. The food source for the animals was gone, the air was being polluted by some from tree-chopping machines, and the production process of the Oncelor’s business caused oil to be dumped into the ponds where the lovely singing fish lived. The directors intentionally made the creatures of the land the most adorable little things in the world. Once the habitat was unlivable for the creatures, they all lined up and moped away from their once-perfect home creating a depressing effect for the audience.