NAHANT — The Nahant Public Library will be hosting local author, Nobel Prize Winner and MIT Professor Susan Solomon, who will speak to community members about climate change on Sept. 25.
Attendees are asked to gather at the library by 4 p.m. to hear Solomon go in-depth about her newest climate change-based book, “Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again.”
Solomon has garnered a name for herself through her pioneering work on the Antarctic Ozone. She also won the National Medal of Science in 1991 and served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“Next week is Climate Preparation Week, which was organized by an organization called Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), and they’ve been hosting events during the last week of September since around 2018,” Library Director Nori Morganstein said.
She continued, saying that she was part of helping the prior library she worked at establish events with CREW, and that “it was something that I wanted to do in Nahant.”
Morganstein recalled how, last year, they did a crafts event for people of all ages, though this year, she was looking to change things up with a live speaker to bring home all the important hallmarks of climate change.
She reiterated that she hopes community members take away a sense of hope from Solomon’s book.
“I hope the people who come and listen to what she has to say learn something and are able to take away some new ideas about climate change, and that they have a little bit of hope,” Morganstein said.
