Margaret Klein Salamon
Margaret Klein Salamon is the Executive Director of the Climate Emergency Fund, and the founder & principal of Climate Awakening. She founded The Climate Mobilization, which advocates for a WWII-scale mobilization to rapidly transform the economy, to protect humanity, and the living world. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth.
| Margaret Klein Salamon | |
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| 🏫 Education | Harvard University, Adelphi University |
| 💼 Occupation | Climate activist, writer, clinical psychologist |
Early Life and Education
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Margaret attended Community High School and Harvard University, earning a degree in Social Anthropology. She then studied successfully for a doctorate in clinical psychology at Adelphi University. In 2012, after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, Margaret changed course[1] to focus her time and energies on climate activism.
Career
Margaret founded The Climate Mobilization in 2014 with colleague Ezra Silk to advocate for a World War Two-scale mobilization of the U.S. economy aimed at reversing global warming and restoring a safe climate. The organization took aim at “gradualism” – incremental climate solutions over the long term – which was espoused at the time by many environmental groups.
In her role as executive director of The Climate Mobilization, Margaret helped catalyze a burgeoning worldwide climate emergency movement[2]. Over 1,500 governments[3] around the world have passed Climate Emergency declarations.
Margaret has contributed to psychological conversations around climate communication, introducing the concept of Emergency Mode[4], highlighting the importance of processing climate grief[5] and refuting the idea that fear-based communication is ineffective[6]. This work has provided the foundation for the messaging and tactics of the Climate Emergency Movement, framing the collective fear of the climate emergency as a call to enter emergency-mode, a period of intense, focused action[7].
Works
Margaret is the author of numerous articles, including The Transformative Power of Climate Truth and Leading the Public into Emergency Mode. Her book Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth is a radical self-help book that helps readers face climate truth, accept their fear of collapse, and turn their pain into action.
References
- ↑ Salamon, Margaret Klein (2020-04-21). Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth. New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-1-77142-330-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Smith-Schoenwalder, Cecelia (November 20, 2019). "'Climate Emergency' Is the Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year". U.S. News. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ↑ "ICEF - Governments emergency declaration spreadsheet". Google Docs. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ Klein Salamon, Margaret (May 24, 2019). "Leading the Public into Emergency Mode". Medium. Retrieved April 20, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Muncy, Leah. "Grief for a lost future and an eroded past". The Outline. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ "Climate Truth and the New York Magazine's "The Uninhabitable Earth"". Resilience. 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ↑ "Opinion | With a Planet on Fire, This Is What It Means to Enter Emergency Mode". Common Dreams. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
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