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* ''[[Un Lun Dun]]'': Don't pollute, or else the smog will become sapient and take control of people's minds, making them destroy a fantasy world and then ours.
* ''[[State of Fear]]'': Don't give in to people believing in global warming, or ecologists will destroy the planet with their weather-control machines. And do not blame the civilization for all evil or you will be eaten by Papua-New-Guinean cannibals.
* ''[[My Teacher Is an Alien|My Teacher Flunked the Planet]]'', a children's book. Stop all war and feed the hungry, or else aliens will destroy Earth. The first two books (''My Teacher is an Alien'', ''My Teacher Fried My Brain'') were suspense/adventure books with no moral to preach, but the preachy moral showed up in the third book and which has at least one good, long [[Author Tract]] about how [[Humans Are
* The moral of Coleridge's ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'' is "be compassionate towards all creatures and don't go around murdering innocent seabirds, or else you'll wind up stranded in the middle of the ocean, all your friends will die, their corpses will torment you, and when you eventually make it to land you'll be forced to constantly wander the world telling your story instead of being able to live a normal life." [[Bruce Dickinson]] put it best. "And the moral of this story is: This is what not to do if a bird shits on you."
* Some of [[Enid Blyton]]'s stories for younger children. For example, ''The Magic Lemonade'': "Don't torment insects, or you might get shrunk by magic so that [[Nightmare Fuel|insects can]] [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|torment you]]".
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