GREAT DECISIONS on Monday, September 18, 6:00 p.m.

“Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration, plus Extreme-Weather Events and their Local Impact”

“Great Decisions” discussion group will meet next Monday, September 18, at 6:00 p.m. in the Walpole Town Library for an exchange of views on “Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Migration, Extreme-Weather Events and their Local Impact.”

Tom Sintros, teacher and environmentalist whose work on climate change began over 40 years ago, will moderate. Tom was a founding member of Keene Cities for Climate Change, a Climate Reality presenter for Al Gore, Conservation Commission member, board member at Distant Hill Gardens, and a Christa McAuliffe grant recipient for project P.L.A.C.E. (Public Lands Adoption and Community Education).

Mark Houghton, President of E.E. Houghton Co., Inc., is our guest speaker. Mark is Walpole’s Emergency Management Director, Fire and EMS Chief, Water and Wastewater Department Director. Extreme-weather events disrupted water, power and travel in Walpole this summer, and Mark has the inside-story.

Suggested reading is the Foreign Policy Association’s article “Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Migration” by Karen Jacobsen, available at the library or via email by contacting Jane Malmberg, Library Director: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org. We will begin our meeting with a 20-minute “Master Class.” (For those joining via Zoom, we are unable to show the “Master Class” on Zoom, so we suggest you join the meeting at 6:20 p.m.)

All are welcome to this public forum at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, September 18, either in person in the Hubbard Meeting Room at the Walpole Town Library or via Zoom. For the Zoom link (please join at 6:20 p.m.), contact Jane Malmberg in advance of the meeting: jmalmberg@walpoletownlibrary.org