A Letter to the Author

Dear Philippe Squarzoni,

So you finally found your ending. How did it feel to write an entire novel and end it with such a disheartening opinion? How am I supposed to read this book and feel optimistic towards our future? You posed all these problems and gave insufficient solutions, and in the end we come to see that you don’t even believe in hope for humanity? Tell me, how did it feel, to sit at that desk, typing away, as if nothing was changed in the publishing of your book? Do you ever think to yourself, “Hey, the world is going to end and there’s nothing I can do about it”? And if you do, how do you sleep at night?

How can we pass through a closing door if no one knows it even exists? How can we slip past time when no one believes that we’ll ever be able to reach the other side of this wall? Uninformed people conclude that we don’t need to leave this room of familiarity and comfort. Informed people conclude that we’ll never leave regardless of the fact that this room caving in. No one believes in anything. Even you don’t believe. Where was this book supposed to leave its readers?

Don’t get me wrong, I like a sad story every once in a while. But I’m also a believer in happy ones too. Whether it’s in stories or in real life, I believe that justice and faith can be attained. Call me naïve, but I just don’t think that the legacy of humanity will be a tragedy. So thank you for taking my class and I on an enlightening journey through the complex matter of climate change. Thank you for asking the right questions and compacting all the answers into this one graphic novel. Thank you for showing us the truth and for sharing your experience in discovering this worldwide concern.

But I’m not stopping here. Maybe this isn’t my fight to take on, but it’s someone’s. And we’re going to find it. We will. And I’m sorry Philippe Squarzoni, but this was not the ending that I was looking for. This subject is still alive, and it breathes a little more each day. I haven’t found the ending that I’m searching for yet. But I’m sure that when I do, it will shine just a little bit brighter.

-Yours truly,

An Avid Dreamer