Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition

Name: Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition
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SKU: 9780865719910
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How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth

By Margaret Klein Salamon

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Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition by Margaret Klein Salamon offers insights into confronting the psychological and emotional challenges posed by the climate crisis. The book guides readers through understanding the climate emergency's impact on their mental well-being and calls for transformative personal and collective action. It's an empowering resource designed to inspire proactive and meaningful engagement in combating climate change.
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This book may appeal to you if you're passionate about understanding the climate crisis and eager to transform your eco-anxiety into action. It offers a psychological approach to tackling the climate emergency, inspiring readers to become courageous climate activists and to embrace the transformative power of collective action.

Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition

Facing the Climate Emergency offers a cure to climate anxiety. With the skill of a psychologist and the passion of an activist, Salamon helps readers process fear and grief and find their place in the climate movement. The second edition of this beloved book highlights the critical role of disruptive protest.

Overwhelmed by climate anxiety? Transform your angst into action to become the hero humanity needs

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Overwhelmed by climate anxiety? Transform your angst into action to become the hero humanity needs.

A lifeline for those suffering from climate anxiety, Facing the Climate Emergency combines expertise in clinical psychology and disruptive climate activism to help readers transform their fear and grief into courage and heroism.

The second edition of this beloved, radical self-help book provides:

An updated analysis of the context of the climate movement including COVID-19, the hunger crisis, growing political unrest, and more.
An unflinching analysis of the accelerating impacts of climate change and what they mean for each of us, personally.
Concrete strategies for tackling climate anxiety, including welcoming painful feelings and using them to catalyse change.
Inspiring profiles of ordinary people sounding the alarm by gluing themselves to priceless works of art, blocking transportation corridors, and shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure.
Resources, exercises for self-reflection, and an invitation to the Climate Awakening, a global virtual climate emotions platform.

Featuring a foreword by visionary filmmaker and philanthropist Adam McKay, Facing the Climate Emergency takes a deep dive into why disruptive grassroots activism is the fastest, most cost-effective path to transformative change.

Whether you're drawn to the front lines of high stakes, non-violent direct action, or prefer to play a supporting role, this guide will help you combat the forces of climate denial and discover your own power in the face of the greatest planetary crisis.

1st EDITION AWARDS

SILVER | 2021 Living Now Book Awards - Green Living.
SILVER | 2020 Nautilus Book Awards: Rising to the Moment 2020.

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Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition by Margaret Klein Salamon receives acclaim for its emotional guidance and motivational influence on climate activism. Reviewers praise Salamon's ability to help readers cope with climate anxiety, encouraging them to confront reality and take decisive action. Readers find the book transformative, offering clarity, empowerment, and a strong call to action amidst overwhelming environmental challenges.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780865719910

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: New Society Publishers

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 10 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

With Molly Gage
Foreword by Adam McKay

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 295g

Pages: 154

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About the Author

Margaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D, is the executive director of the Climate Emergency Fund, which raises and grants millions of dollars to nonviolent disruptive climate activists. A graduate of Harvard with a Ph.D. from Adelphi University, Margaret brings her psychological expertise to all of her climate work. As founder of the grassroots advocacy group Climate Mobilization, she spearheaded the campaign for governments to acknowledge the climate emergency through an official declaration. A climate emergency has now been declared by over 2,270 global governments, comprising more than 1 billion of the world's citizens. Her Climate Awakening project facilitates hundreds of virtual and in-person small-group conversations, helping people transform their fear, rage, and despair into effective action. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.