ar-ba-loots are all getting the crummiesBecause they have gas, and no food, in their tummies!BUTBusiness is business!And business must growRegardless of crummies in tummies, you know.The Once-ler did not care about the environment. As he said, "Business is business". All he cared about was profits and not the beauty of the land he was destroying. With each hack of his super ax hacker he was contributing to the destruction of the Truffula Tree forest. He didn't plant any Truffula Trees in place of the ones he cut down. He only had time to run his factory and make Thneeds. He kept making more Thneeds and making more money. Slowly all the animals that depended on the Truffula Trees for food, shelter, and fresh air had to move away from the barren wasteland that was once a beautiful and clean forest. The air was full of smog and the lakes were full of gook from the factory. The Lorax and the Once-ler fought until the very last Truffula Tree was chopped. The Once-lers family left and so did the Lorax. Just the Once-ler and his factory were left. But the Lorax left one thing, a small pile of rocks with a word carved into them, "UNLESS". So for years and years the Once-ler sat in his house on top of his factory and worried about what he had done. In his heart he felt terrible that he let his greed cause so much destruction. So one day he told his story to a boy that wandered to his house. He told the boy that the meaning of the pile of rocks that the Lorax left behind was clear to him now. Unless someone who cares a lot does something, nothing is going to get better. So he gave the boy the very last Truffula Tree seed and told him to plant it and protect it, and maybe some day there would be a forest of Truffula Trees again. The Lorax, written in 1971 was Dr. Seuss' personal favorite. He wrote a masterpiece about pollution- its causes and the solutions. The book was made into a television special for the CBS network, which ...
