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Facing the Climate Emergency

How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth

Author: Margaret Klein Salamon and Molly Gage  

Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that humanity needs.

Facing the Climate Emergency addresses the fears of everyone who is alarmed about the climate crisis and yet feels powerless to stop it. Drawing on psychology, it shows readers how to use their feelings of fear, grief, and powerlessness to transform themselves into climate warriors and motivate collective change.

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Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that humanity needs.

Facing the Climate Emergency addresses the fears of everyone who is alarmed about the climate crisis and yet feels powerless to stop it. Drawing on psychology, it shows readers how to use their feelings of fear, grief, and powerlessness to transform themselves into climate warriors and motivate collective change.

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Facing the Climate Emergency addresses the fears of everyone who is alarmed about the climate crisis and yet feels powerless to stop it. Drawing on psychology, it shows readers how to use their feelings of fear, grief, and powerlessness to transform themselves into climate warriors and motivate collective change.

Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that humanity needs.

As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are often paralyzed by fear.

Help is at hand. Facing the Climate Emergency gives people the tools to confront the climate emergency, face their negative emotions, and channel them into protecting humanity and the natural world.

Drawing on facts about the climate, tenets of psychological theory, information about the climate emergency movement and elements of memoir, coverage includes:

  • How to face the climate crisis and accept your fears, anger, grief, guilt, and other emotions
  • Turning negative feelings into tangible action to respond to the crisis
  • Rising to heroism, becoming a "climate warrior," and maximizing your impact by joining the Climate Emergency Movement
  • Support material, including further reading, questions for self-reflection, and exercises to complete with like-minded groups

Written for the suffering multitudes struggling to cope and looking for answers, Facing the Climate Emergency provides the motivation, guidance, and support needed to leave "normal" behind and travel the path of the climate warrior, rising to the challenge of our time.

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About the Author

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior whose work helps people to face the deeply frightening, painful truths of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She is the founder and principal of Climate Awakening, which seeks to transform the climate movement by holding thousands of emotional small group conversations about the climate emergency. She is currently the Executive Director of the Climate Emergency Fund.

When not working for the climate, Margaret enjoys Pure Barre workouts, civil war and social movement history, and The Sopranos. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and puppy.

Molly Gage, PhD, is a book developer committed to women-authored nonfiction books that push forward progressive ideas and elevate the voices of the women who think them.

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Face the truth, accept your fears, and BECOME THE HERO THAT HUMANITY NEEDS A remarkable account of how you can become a climate warrior. BILL McKIBBEN, author, Falter An open invitation to join the millions of people waging fierce love to protect humanity. VARSHINI PRAKASH, co-founder and executive director, Sunrise Movement A call to greatness and heroic action. ADAM MCKAY, Academy Award winning writer and director, The Big Short and Vice A guide to the inner journey involved in embracing the truths of the climate crisis. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, best-selling author, A Politics of Love The most powerful, honest, and psychologically astute book on climate change I've ever read. RICHARD HEINBERG, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute This work is not optional. Read it, use it, and rebel. GAIL BRADBROOK, co-founder, Extinction Rebellion YES, WE'RE FACING CATASTROPHIC BREAKDOWN of our climate. Yes, it's terrifying. But you don't have to be paralyzed. You can use your pain to transform yourself, your friends, and the world. You can become the hero humanity needs. This book will show you how. Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior and founder of The Climate Mobilization, which pioneered the internationally recognized Climate Emergency Declaration campaign. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Facing the Climate Emergency addresses the fears of everyone who is alarmed about the climate crisis and yet feels powerless to stop it. Drawing on psychology, it shows readers how to use their feelings of fear, grief, and powerlessness to transform themselves into climate warriors and motivate collective change. Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that humanity needs. As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are often paralyzed by fear. Help is at hand. Facing the Climate Emergency gives people the tools to confront the climate emergency, face their negative emotions, and channel them into protecting humanity and the natural world. Drawing on facts about the climate, tenets of psychological theory, information about the climate emergency movement and elements of memoir, coverage includes: How to face the climate crisis and accept your fears, anger, grief, guilt, and other emotions Turning negative feelings into tangible action to respond to the crisis Rising to heroism, becoming a "climate warrior," and maximizing your impact by joining the Climate Emergency Movement Support material, including further reading, questions for self-reflection, and exercises to complete with like-minded groups Written for the suffering multitudes struggling to cope and looking for answers, Facing the Climate Emergency provides the motivation, guidance, and support needed to leave "normal" behind and travel the path of the climate warrior, rising to the challenge of our time.

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Product Details

Publisher
New Society Publishers
Published
21st April 2020
Pages
160
ISBN
9780865719415

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