Climate Change Author Speaks in Haverhill March 29

Wen Stephenson is a former editor at The Atlantic and at The Boston Globe.

Wen Stephenson is author of “What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice.”

Wen Stephenson is author of “What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice.”

The author of a new book, telling the stories of “new American radicals” working to bring recognition of climate change, speaks in Haverhill, Tuesday, March 29.

Wen Stephenson, whose “What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice” was published last fall, left his career in mainstream media to become an activist for climate justice in America. In the book, he “argues that the movement is less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human-rights and social-justice struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights. It’s a movement for human solidarity.”

Stephenson speaks at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Haverhill, 16 Ashland St. The talk is sponsored by the church’s Green Sanctuary Committee.

The author is a former editor at The Atlantic, where he co-created and edited TheAtlantic.com, and at The Boston Globe, where he edited the Sunday “Ideas” section. He has also been the managing editor of PBS’s Frontline.org and the senior producer of NPR’s “On Point.” He has written about climate, culture and politics for The Boston Phoenix, Grist, Slate, The New York Times and the Globe. In 2012, he helped launch the grassroots climate-action network 350 Massachusetts.