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 * Type your name and then the answer to the question. Change font color between student responses.

2. Earth today has many environmental and social issues. What sort of problems could have led to the building of the City of Ember? Ankur:
 * Th **** e problems that could have led to the building of the __City of Ember__ **** are a ****lot of shortages. For example, there are a lot of light shortages and supply shortages. I know that because in the book it says,” There have been several blackouts". That means there is not ****that much light. Also I know there ****are supply shortages because when Lina went to a store to buy some color pencils, each one cost $5.00 and in my knowledge usually one pencil cost about $0.25. **

**Mrs. McGee: **
 * Ankur, you identified some really good problems in Ember, the way Ember is shown to us in the book. Think beyond the book. What environmental or social issues that exist today, in our world, might have lead to building a city like Ember? **

I think something happened on Earth. Maybe there was a really bad storm or maybe it became hot or too cold so they built Ember so they could save the Human Race.
=== //Jarod//: I think that Earth might have been polluted. So since there was junk everywhere and the air was polluted with smoke, the people of Earth had to make a underground city so everybody would live. ===

Ashley:
==== I agree with Jarod. The Earth might have been too polluted for people to live. Just like in our chorus song: they might have had to even wear gas masks just to go outside! Or there could have been a terrible war that forced people to go underground if they wanted to keep their lives. ====

I think there was a war so the Human Race had to evacuate underground.
Diti: I agree with Jarod, Ashley, and Tracey. The Earth was probably too polluted for people to live ON, so they all had to build a world UNDERGROUND.