THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis
As climate change quickens—bringing with it extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and humanitarian crises—four teens help organize the world’s largest climate protest. Millions join them, taking to the streets of New York City and places around the globe, demanding answers. How did climate change get this bad? Who’s to blame? And most importantly: what can we do about it?
In their stunning graphic novel, New York Times best-selling illustrator Danica Novgorodoff and award-winning environmental journalist Meera Subramanian share experiences from their lives and the lives of the four youth activists who’ve witnessed climate change up close—from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to floods in Bangladesh.
Through their stories, we learn the science behind our changing planet and explore solutions at hand. They show us anyone can make meaningful change, because a better world is possible—and together, we can create it!
Praise for A Better World Is Possible
“As this lovely book points out, ‘we don’t have the luxury of time anymore.’ This book is an urgent, helpful, and hopeful portrait of what’s possible when young people come together to fight for a better world.”
~John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
“A heart-warming and planet-cooling book about how change happens–anyone reading this will be much better prepared to help in the fight for the planet’s future.”
~Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
“A comprehensive and compassionate look at the climate crisis that gives readers of all ages a sense of empowerment. A necessary read for anyone who wants to believe in the future.”
~Jen Wang, author of Ash’s Cabin
Authors
Written by Danica Novgorodoff and Meera Subramanian
Illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff
DANICA NOVGORODOFF
Danica is an artist, writer, and New York Times–bestselling illustrator. Her books include the graphic novels Long Way Down, written by Jason Reynolds; Tsunamis: A Memoir of Art & Motherhood; Slow Storm; The Undertaking of Lily Chen; and Refresh Refresh; the cookbook The Simple Art of Rice, with Chef JJ Johnson; the picture book Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, & Environmental Pioneer; and Not A Cat, written by Winter Miller.
In 2022, Danica was awarded the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, the UK’s most prestigious award for children’s book illustration. She has also received grants in literature from South Arts (2025), the Puffin Foundation (2024), the Café Royal Cultural Foundation (2020), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2015).
She can be found at danicanovgorodoff.com.
MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
Meera is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. Her first book was A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera has received numerous grants and fellowships.
She is a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds from her home base atop a glacial moraine on the Atlantic’s western edge.
You can find her at meerasub.org.
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Resources
LEARN
Beautiful Trouble: an international network offering creative tools for activists
Carbon Brief: UK-based climate science and policy information
Climate Accountability Institute: research and communication about climate solutions; produces the Carbon Majors report, which tracks carbon emitters
Climate Central: climate research and communication
Climate Change Resources: information and climate news updates
Climate Feedback: separates fact from fiction in climate information
Climate Files: archival database of news, information, and documents on climate
Climate Kids: art, science, and storytelling
Climate Literacy Guide: produced by NOAA and other US government agencies
Columbia Climate School: advanced degrees for climate leaders
Covering Climate Now: helps global news media best cover climate change
Denial101x: a free online course including interviews with top experts in the field
Global Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance: report from ecoAmerica, Climate for Health, and the American Psychological Association
Indigenous Environmental Network: nonprofit organization formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples to address environmental and economic justice issues
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change that produces regular reports on the state of the climate using global scientific data
Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing: six core values that emphasize the importance of inclusion and equity in the organizing process
Media Bias / Fact Check: check out how reliable a media source is here
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Climate Change: climate change site of the US government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space
NASA’s Earth Observatory: shares images, stories, and discoveries about the environment, Earth systems, and climate from NASA research
NASA Eyes on the Earth: satellite imagery and data of Earth’s vital signs
NOAA SciJinks: weather and Earth sciences for middle and high school students
Our World in Data: research and data to gauge world problems
Project Drawdown: global resource for climate solutions
Rigged: documents the history of disinformation in America
ScienceAlert: independent online news source that publishes trusted science news
Skeptical Science: dispels climate myths with peer-reviewed science
Talk Climate: tips to talk about climate with anyone
Unthinkable Earth: Working to advance the conversation around the intersections of climate change and mental health
Water Scarcity Atlas: provides an introduction to water scarcity around the world
World Meteorological Organization (WMO): United Nations agency that monitors state of the world’s weather, climate, and water
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology: international, multireligious project studying religious environmentalism
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication: conducts surveys about climate attitudes and messaging
Youth Climate Action Toolkit: climate action in schools
READ
All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal with Climate Change by Leslie Davenport: for tweens and teens)
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
As the World Burns: A New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change by Lee van der Voo
A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time by Joanna Macy and edited by Stephanie Kaza
Be the Change: Rob Greenfield’s Call to Kids Making a Difference in a Messed-Up World by Rob Greenfield
Grist: nonprofit independent media covering climate solutions and equity
Heated: Substack newsletter by Emily Atkin for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis
How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein
The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy by Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
National Geographic: a magazine and website dedicated to exploring the planet
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann
Orion: nonprofit magazine about nature and culture
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World by the Dalai Lama
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Adapted for Young Adults) by Hope Jahren
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World by Kimberly Nicholas
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
YES! magazine: nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism that is no longer published but remains a good resource for past stories
Unthinkable: Substack newsletter by Dr. Britt Wray about staying sane in the climate and wider ecological crisis
LISTEN
A Matter of Degrees: hosted by climate expert Dr. Leah Stokes and All We Can Save Project cofounder Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
America Adapts: focused on climate adaptation, with host Doug Parsons
Climate Conversations: produced by MIT Climate and MIT Energy Initiative
Climate One: wide-ranging climate topics with hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious
Costing the Earth: the BBC’s take on climate change and groundbreaking solutions
Drilled: award-winning podcast about climate accountability with host Amy Westervelt
The Flossy episode “Climate Change & Environmental Racism”: winner of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge, created by Brooklyn high school students
For What It’s Earth: climate questions answered and explained with hosts Emma Brisdion and Sophie Pavelle
Hot Take: archive of sassy show with Mary Annaise Hegla and Amy Westervelt
How To Save a Planet: archive of shows with calls to action and resources
Mothers of Invention: explores feminist climate change solutions in an entertaining way
No Place Like Home: personal stories that detail the effects of climate change
Outrage and Optimism: focuses on expanding understanding of the climate crisis and inspiring listeners to take action
Temperature Check: archive of podcast on climate justice from Grist magazine
TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate): award-winning podcast from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WATCH
“Climate Change 101”: video from National Geographic hosted by Bill Nye, the Science Guy
“Climate Science in a Nutshell #4: Too Much Carbon Dioxide”: from Planet Nutshell, this video explains the relationship between carbon dioxide and the increase in global temperature
“Climate Science: What You Need to Know”: from PBS’s “It’s Okay to Be Smart” with Joe Hanson
Crash Course: multiple fun and informative videos for kids about climate change
“Creating Space for Youth in Conservation”: features grassroots youth organization Groundwork Ohio River Valley
Global Weirding: informative videos for kids with entertaining climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe
“Kids Describe Solutions to Global Warming | Kids Describe | HiHo Kids”: students describe various visions for a sustainable future as an illustrator draws them
vlogbrothers: multiple videos from Hank and John Green about climate change
“What Happens if Earth Gets 2°C Warmer?”: from Popular Science, this video explores
what would happen if the global temperature reaches this critical threshold
“What’s the Deal with Carbon?”: short animation explaining the carbon cycle
Youth Unstoppable: documentary by youth climate activist Slater Jewell-Kemker from inside the rise of the Global Youth Climate Movement
LAUGH & LEARN
Carbon City Zero, World Edition: collaborative deck-building game to build green cities
Cards Against Calamity: role-play being the mayor of a small town and save it from hurricanes and more!
Climate Comedy Cohort: Generation180 is training comedians, and here you can watch the results!
Climate Science Breakthrough: comedians translate climate science
Daybreak: cooperative board game to build a new green world
Dr. Matt Matt Winning: Scottish environmental economist and comedian
Rollie Williams: climate-centered comedian
Sustainable Stand Up: offers classes on making eco-comedy
GET INVOLVED!
350.org: global movement to speed up the clean energy transition
Action for the Climate Emergency: supports and educates youth climate leaders
The All We Can Save Project: resources and guidance for Climate Wayfinding and Circles that explore the ideas in the anthology All We Can Save
Center for Cultural Power: an organization led by artists of color supporting those creating new narratives of an equitable future
Climate Careers: details careers in a variety of fields that can work towards creating the climate solutions we need
Climate Change Theatre Action: worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented biennially
The Climate Initiative: youth climate education and action
Climate Justice Alliance: frontline communities building a regenerative economy
Climate Reality Project: recruits, trains, and mobilizes people of all ages to work toward climate solutions
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life: mobilizing the Jewish communities and allies to advance eco-justice
EcoTok Collective: the environmentalists of TikTok
Environmental Voter Project: nonpartisan nonprofit that encourages inactive green voters to vote
Extinction Rebellion: decentralized, international, nonpartisan, nonviolent movement that uses civil disobedience to pressure governments
Force of Nature: empowering young people through free global programs about climate action
Fridays for Future: youth-led and -organized movement that began in August 2018, after fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis
Good Grief Network: peer-to-peer support group for eco-grief
Hip Hop Caucus: national, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization that connects communities of color to civic action
Our Children’s Trust: nonprofit public interest law firm supporting youth climate lawsuits
Our Kids’ Climate: global organization for parents and other elders to get involved
Re-Earth Initiative: global youth nonprofit working for climate justice
Seeding Sovereignty: invests in community building in Indigenous communities
The Solutions Project: accelerates a just transition to a regenerative economy
Stop the Money Pipeline: coalition of hundreds of organizations holding finance sector accountable
Sunrise Movement: working toward a just society and green jobs
Third Act: encourage your elders to get involved with this climate action organization for those sixty and older
TREEage: a community of high school and college students championing progressive climate legislation in New York City
US Climate Strike Coalition: coalition of youth-led climate organizations
Young Evangelicals for Climate Action: using Christian faith to fight for climate action
Zero Hour: intersectional youth activist organization calling for climate and environmental justice
