Facing the Climate Emergency (eBook)

How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth

Margaret Klein Salamon (Autor)

Margaret Klein Salamon (Sprecher)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
160 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-77142-330-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Stop fretting and start fighting global warming: "e;A remarkable account of how you can become a climate warrior."e; -Bill McKibben, founder of 350.orgYes, 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.Facing the Climate Emergency is an action-oriented self-help guide showing you how to maximize your potential to meet the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. Written for all of us struggling to cope and wanting to do something to stop the climate crisis, it gives us the blueprint to leave "e;normal"e; behind and enter climate "e;emergency mode."e;How to face the climate crisis and accept your fears, anger, grief, guilt, and other emotionsTurning negative feelings into tangible action to respond to the crisisRising to heroism and maximizing your impact by joining the Climate Emergency MovementInformation on further reading, questions for self-reflection, and exercises "e;This book will wake you up, no matter how aware you think you are."e; -David Wallace-Wells, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth

Autor

lt;p> Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD , is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior and Founder and Executive Director of The Climate Mobilization, which pioneered the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign and helped turn it into a global movement. Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Margaret matriculated to Harvard College and earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at Adelphi University. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, she woke up to climate truth and is now fiercely devoted to cancelling the apocalypse and restoring a safe climate. 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, Bren. www.theclimatemobilization.org

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.

Inhalt

Prologue
Introduction

Step One: Face Climate Truth
Step Two: Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings
Step Three: Reimagine Your Life Story
Step Four: Understand and Enter Emergency Mode
Step Five: Join the Climate Emergency Movement

Conclusion: Live as a Climate Warrior
Additional Resources: Continue Your Journey
Endnotes
Works Cited
About the Authors
About the Organization
A Note about the Publisher

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2020
• Co-Autor: Molly Gage
• Zusatzinfo: B&W 5 maps, charts, photographs and graphics
• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Angst / Depression / Zwang
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • Anthropocene • anxious about climate change • Call to Action • Catastrophe • Change • climate anxiety • climate crisis • climate denial • climate mobilization • climatology • conservation protection • environmental justice • Environmental Policy • Feel Overwhelmed • Gift • global warming • how to solve climate change • Justice • Make a Difference • overwhelmed • Preparedness • Psychology • radical self help • regenerative • response • social change • spark revolution • stop global warming • Sunrise Movement • Systemic • systemic change
• ISBN-10: 1-77142-330-7 / 1771423307
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77142-330-4 / 9781771423304