Unlivable: How a Changing Climate Will Force a Global Migration

The Mid-Maine Global Forum along with the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs is pleased to host Abrahm Lustgarten as the speaker for our annual Linda Cotter Speaker Event. 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. In this talk we’ll look at the climate-driven migration already underway, consider how it affects the U.S. border and security, and also what a hotter climate means for where people live inside the U.S.

Our keynote speaker, Abrahm 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 event is co-hosted by the Mid-Maine Global Forum and the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs at Colby College. 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. Please join us as Mr. Lustgarten shares his perceptions on this critical issue.

• Date & Time: Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 6:00 p.m,.
• Place: Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center, Colby College (See campus map at www.colby.edu.) Park at rear of building.
• Price: $35 per person

We will have a beer and wine bar with a tasty variety of hors d'oeuvres followed by the keynote address and Q & A. As seating is limited to 100 people and as we are extending the invitation to both the MMGF email list and the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs email list, please RSVP as soon as possible and before the deadline of Tuesday August 1 to midmaineglobalforum@gmail.com. The event will have open seating, but if you would like to reserve a table for a party of eight, please indicate so in your RSVP. We will need the names of the people in your party of eight.

Please send a check, payable to “Mid-Maine Global Forum,” by Tuesday, August 1 to:

Mid-Maine Global Forum
PO Box 2636
Waterville, ME 04903

We look forward to seeing you, honoring MMGF Founder Linda Cotter, and enjoying an enriching experience together.