WALL-E, the Disney film, has a great message for all of us. In the movie, the humans have moved to space.

Why? Because after years of not taking care of their garbage, trash has taken over the earth.

Wall-e is a trash compactor and he continues his job on earth by scooping garbage, making it into cubes and creating buildings with those cubes. It must reek like nothing you or I have ever smelled before.

“Why is there so much garbage?” My seven year old whispered loudly, when we watched it in the movie theater.

“Because they didn’t recycle,” I answered.

Yes indeed. Dramatic perhaps, but a great example of WHY we must make changes in our lives to implement green living and sustainability.

Wall-E is happy scooping and packing because he has not known anything else. But then he meets Eva, a probe sent to earth to determine if life could be sustained there once again, and things change. He falls in love, and when Eva shuts down and is later removed from Earth, he moves mountains to go with her. All of the sudden, garbage isn’t so satisfying after all.

On the planet that humans now live in, they are fed and clothed while sitting (and being transported) in their chairs. Everything happens at voice command and they continually have a screen in front of their face with media and pictures. Some have the screen removed during the movie and realize there is actually life around them. A couple discover that there is a swimming pool and that talking to another person is actually pleasant.  Each one of the humans are fat because they don’t move, and their muscles can’t take standing.

The movie is both a message of green and a message of inactivity and where it could lead. Inspiring on both accounts.  It’s not so hard to take care of our world so that our Earth’s landfills don’t take over. And it’s not so hard to make a commitment to take our faces out of media each day and MOVE-enjoying the planet that we do have.

Do this and reap tremendous results. You will feel better. Demand this of your children too, and someday they will thank you.