Lorax+writing+prompts

 1. What similarities do you notice between the story told in The Lorax, and the historical account provided in The Mirror of our Fate?  2. What caused each of these three “societies” to collapse (The Lorax, Easter Island, and The Mayans)?  3. In each of these three cases, how could disaster have been avoided?  4. What does the term “landscape amnesia” mean, and how does this phenomenon help to explain why the people in each of these 3 societies failed to prevent collapse?  5. What modern situations do you know of (or did you read about) that are similar to those described in The Lorax and The Mirror of our Fate?  6. What can we as humans do to prevent this kind of disaster in the future?