Quote: The Once-ler, from The Lorax with photos by Chris Jordan

Download PDF Poster. 7.5MB “I meant no harm. I most truly did not. But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads. I biggered my wagons. I biggered the loads of the Thneeds I shipped out. I was shipping them forth to the South! To the East! To the West! To the North! I went right on biggering ... selling more Thneeds. And I biggered my money, which everyone needs.” The Once-ler FROM THE LORAX, BY DR. SEUSS

PHOTO CAPTION: Cell phones #2, Atlanta (top) Car Junkyard, Vancouver, Washington (bottom). Photos by Chris Jordan

Note to educators: Chris Jordan’s dazzling images of stacked throwaway cell phones and crushed cars make the statistics that describe the huge waste streams of our consumer culture visible. Taking the first line of the excerpt above, “I meant no harm. I most truly did not,” have your students be the Once-Ler and finish the apology to the Lorax in Dr. Seuss style.

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