Having chosen Wall-E for my applied plant ecology film festival, I also found a variety of other films which covered the idea of climate change and loss of biodiversity in a unique way. The Lorax, a 2012 film created by Universal Studios follows the story of Ted who lives in a world with no nature and no natural resources, meaning no real trees, plants, etc. As he goes on a journey to find a real tree for his neighbour, the movie begins to focus more on the reason behind the lack of biodiversity in this world. Specifically, the movie shows the Lorax, a guardian of the trees and the Once-ler, who had once been an entrepreneur and had led to complete deforestation of the Truffula trees, leaving nothing in behind as his greed for success took over. The Once-ler had originally arrived at a beautiful field of Truffula trees with a diverse ecosystem surrounding the trees.
However, as he begins to chope down the trees one by one to create his ‘theends’. However, with that, the Lorax comes in to explain to the Once-ler that continuing to cut down trees would have massive consequences. However, he continues to cut down forests of trees, leading to a complete mass extinction of the Truffula trees. 
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 