Join award winning environmental journalist Meera Subramanian for an engaging all-ages discussion of her new graphic novel, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis. We encourage students to attend and participate in this free event.
The event will take place on Thursday, May 14, at 7 pm in the Salem Family Auditorium at the Barrington Public Library, our partner in the Land Trust Learning Series.
As climate change quickens—bringing with it extreme weather, biodiversity loss and humanitarian crises—four teens help organize the world’s largest climate protest. Hundreds of thousands join them, taking to the streets of New York City and demanding answers.
How did climate change get this bad? Who’s to blame? And most importantly: What can we do about it?
In their stunning graphic novel, Meera Subramanian and New York Times best-selling illustrator Danica Novgorodoff share experiences from their lives and those of the four youth activists. Extensively researched interludes answer questions such as “What is climate change?” and “What is environmental (in)justice?” so readers can learn not just the science but the social implications of our changing planet and then explore solutions at hand.
They show us that anyone can make meaningful change, because a better world is possible—and together, we can create it! A Better World Is Possible will be available for sale at the event.
About Meera Subramanian
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis.
Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. Her first book was A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera has received numerous grants and fellowships.