Wellfleet Public Library

Author Talk: MEERA SUBRAMANIAN

“A Better World is Possible”

In Conversation with Elizabeth Bradfield

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 A Better World is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, New York Times best-selling illustrator Danica Novgorodoff and award-winning environmental journalist Meera Subramanian share experiences from their lives and those of the four youth activists. Through their stories, we learn the science behind our changing planet and 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!

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.

Elizabeth Bradfield is an American poet and naturalist. She is the author of several books, including Interpretive Work, winner of the Audre Lorde Award, and Approaching Ice. Her work has been nominated for the Lambda Literary Prize and the James Laughlin Award.