WATERVILLE — The Mid-Maine Global Forum, along with the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs, plans to co-host Abrahm Lustgarten as speaker for its annual Linda Cotter Speaker Event.
The gathering is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9, in the Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center at Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Drive.
A reception will include a beer and wine bar and a variety of hors d’oeuvres followed by a keynote address and question-and-answer session.
Climate change is making the same parts of the world that are the most populated hotter and drier, leading to growing food scarcity and widespread economic impact that is together expected to drive large-scale migration over the coming decades. This talk will look at the climate-driven migration already underway and consider how it affects the U.S. border and security, and what a hotter climate means for where people live inside the U.S., according to a news release from Mid-Maine Global Forum.
Lustgarten is a nationally recognized writer and thinker about climate change. He writes for ProPublica, the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and PBS Frontline, among others.
His most recent work has focused on global migration in response to a warming climate, the subject of three cover stories he wrote for the New York Times Magazine and of his forthcoming book, “Unlivable, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.”
His other recent investigations include an examination of how the IMF and the World Bank keep climate-vulnerable countries paralyzed by high-levels of debt, of the global palm oil trade, the climate drivers behind pandemics, and global water scarcity.
This annual speaker series is in honor of Linda Cotter, founder of the Mid-Maine Global Forum and late wife of former Colby College president William Cotter.
People should park at the rear of the building; a campus map is online at colby.edu.
The cost is $35 per person.
For more information, contact Mid-Maine Global Forum at 207-377-2031 or midmaineglobalforum@gmail.com.
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