Margaret Klein Salamon

Margaret Klein Salamon, Phd is co-founder and director of Climate Mobilization and author of the new book, "Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth" (). Follow her and Climate Mobilization on Twitter: @ClimatePsych / @MobilizeClimate
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Views Wednesday, June 17, 2020 The Climate Movement Must Learn from Larry Kramer’s Fearless Truth Telling Larry Kramer, fierce and inspirational activist, founder of ACT UP, and brilliant author, died late last month at age 84 . Larry was instrumental in turning the AIDS crisis from a taboo, denied, and individual battle to a national emergency. While his tactics may have been considered controversial... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 02, 2020 Our Climate Mobilization Journey With Bernie Sanders Over five years ago, we founded The Climate Mobilization. We started TCM because we saw a dangerous vacuum in our political system, the environmental movement, and our society as a whole. We faced an accelerating climate emergency and ecological crisis that threatened to cause the collapse of... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 27, 2019 With a Planet on Fire, This Is What It Means to Enter Emergency Mode Imagine there is a fire in your house. What do you do? What do you think about? You do whatever you can to try to put out the fire or exit the house. You make a plan of action. "Those of us who have entered emergency mode—who understand the mobilization imperative—need to get talkative and loud."... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 23, 2019 Facing the Climate Emergency: Grieving The Future You Thought You Had CD editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the author's forthcoming book, Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth . Where do you see yourself in 10 years? In 20? Perhaps you plan to be advancing in your career, married, with children or retired, living... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 16, 2018 Who is Guilty of Climate Crimes? A fascinating exposé of the climate crisis awaits you in Peter Carter and Elizabeth Woodworth’s, “Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival.” It is a comprehensive look at the climate crisis through a legal frame, discussing the relevant national and international... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Heroism in the Age of Crisis The flood waters are still rising in Texas, swallowing up homes and whole communities. Rain is predicted to continue for days. Our hearts go out to those who have lost lives, family members, homes and possessions, including the many on this list who have been affected or are still in the storm’s... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 17, 2017 The Planet Is Warming. And It's Okay to Be Afraid Last Week, David Wallace-Wells wrote a cover story for of New York Magazine , " The Uninhabitable Earth ," on some of the worst-case scenarios that the climate crisis could cause by the end of this century. It describes killer heat waves, crippling agricultural failures, devastated economies,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 16, 2015 The Paris Climate Talks and the 1.5C Target: Wartime-Scale Mobilization is Our Only Option Left The Paris climate talks are over, and the postmortems on the final agreement are flooding in. Here’s our take: After 21 years of negotiations, we finally have an agreement that the majority of nations are expected to ratify. This is a critical breakthrough in terms of shared global understanding of... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 27, 2015 The Transformative Power of Climate Truth The Climate Mobilization launched seven months ago, when we began spreading the Pledge to Mobilize at the People’s Climate March in New York City. Our mission is to initiate a WWII-scale mobilization that protects civilization and the natural world from climate catastrophe. Climate truth is central... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 19, 2014 What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication Climate change is a crisis, and crises alter morality. Climate change is on track to cause the extinction of half the species on earth and, through a combination of droughts, famines, displaced people, and failed states and pandemics, the collapse of civilization within this century. If this... Read more |