Meera Subramanian

@meerasub.bsky.social

🌏Journalist. Author. Earthling. 🍃 A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis (March 2026) 🖋️ Bylines: New Yorker, Nature, VQR, Orion contributing ed. 📚 Creative Nonfiction prof at Sewanee School of Letters 🌿 www.meerasub.org

Grief is a condition. Mourning is an action. It’s how we learn what need to do to keep living. I recommend @meerasub.bsky.social’s & Danica Novgorodoff’s A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, for young readers & adults. Note, says Meera, not “probable,” possible. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

A Better World Is Possible

"Helpful and hopeful." —John Green, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Fault in Our StarsA Better World Is Possible is a comprehensive graphic n...

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I was born the year of the first #EarthDay. Have witnessed the #climatecrisis unfold over the decades since. A new generation of activists, the offspring of earlier generations of activists, may be our last, best hope. Will we listen to them? Will we act? My essay in TIME mag. tinyurl.com/28vpbebh

A New Generation of Climate Leaders Is Our Last Hope

Young climate activists “have a life-and-death stake in the climate system they will be inhabiting,” writes Meera Subramanian.

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If you're anywhere near Kingston RI this Thursday, do join me and Elizabeth Rush at URI for the @metcalfuri.bsky.social Spring Lecture! @abetterworldbook.bsky.social

Metcalf Institute@metcalfuri.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Metcalf's Spring Lecture is this Thursday! Author and alum @meerasub.bsky.social offers a preview of what's in store. Sign up for the free, open-to-the-public lecture on April 2 at 5:30 PM at the URI Kingston Campus: ow.ly/7s9Q50YBcss

Lovely piece on windfarms revitalising a dying Spanish town by @meerasub.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com The town’s shrinking population now sustains itself. Young people stayed & had babies. “We have a group of children,” the mayor told me. "Generation Wind." www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Spain’s Wind-Farm Bargain

Renewable-energy projects can boost the economy of a rural town—if the community has a say in development.

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