Dear Jeanne Duprau,
Lately everyone's been talking about global warming and what will happen if pollution continues. They say if pollution continues we won't be able to live on Earth. And if global warming continues all the icebergs will melt, causing sea levels to rise, land to disappear, & populations to increase. Your book, The City of Ember, gave me some insight on what might happen if pollution and global warming continues. An example of what could happen is that the human race could become an endangered species.
Very few humans would survive, and those who did would be living quite differently from our present state. We would fall back in intellect and technology because we wouldn't know simple words such as boat or car because we'd never have seen either of them before. We wouldn't have the technology of candles or matches.
If we had our own city of Ember, we would live in constant fear of the lights going out forever and there not being enough food. We would never see the blue sky or the green grass. Never feel the warmth of the sun or smell the scent of a flower. The world as we know it would change, possibly forever because we might never gets back to the way things are now. Long dead cities littering the land with buildings' corpses.
If we lived like the people of Sparks, we would have to work hard just to live. Life would be a constant uphill battle, everyone fighting to reach the top. Children would have to start helping at an age where they should be in school. People dying because they don't have the right medicine.
Global warming and pollution would lead to this because amidst the pollution and war the human race would almost completely die out. Leaving the ones who did survive to carry on the way our ancestors lived years before us, but with intellect they never had And the people already living in an underground city created by the government to ensure that some humans would live on during the war would continue to live in darkness, hopefully returning to the surface one day.
Bottom line, we need to do what we can to keep the earth clean. Otherwise, we're just heading for disaster. Even if there was a Lina & Doon to save the citizens of our underground city from the darkness, we'd still suffer greatly. Our whole culture would change, shifted gradually overtime like mankind has. This time it'd be sloping down, instead of rising up, though. Every piece of clothing, no matter how shabby, would be treated like treasure to us. I think everyone should read your books, because this series really opened my eyes.