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Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD
Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD is the founder and Executive Director of The Climate Mobilization, which works to initiate a WWII-scale mobilization that rapidly transforms our economy to protect humanity and the living world. In that role she has helped catalyze a burgeoning worldwide climate emergency movement. Over 1,300 governments around the world have now passed Climate Emergency declarations based on the policy framework that The Climate Mobilization has developed and championed.

Klein Salamon earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Adelphi University and also holds a BA in social anthropology from Harvard. Though she loved being a therapist, Margaret felt called to apply her psychological and anthropological knowledge to solving climate change. She is the author of 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 process the emotional, psychological elements of the climate crisis, accept their fear of collapse, and turn their pain into action.

Inner experience, emotions, and morality have been a vanishingly small part of the climate conversation. Rather, climate change messaging has always been approached from the perspective of science, and assumed to require a focus on rationality and lack of emotion in order to be considered “legitimate.” The mainstream climate movement bought into this approach, fully embracing narratives that “fear doesn’t work as a motivator” and “people will be overwhelmed by the whole truth about climate change” -- yet despite decades of clear, science-based communication on climate change, we collectively have yet to grasp the massive social, political, and economic change necessary to address it.

Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon, clinical psychologist, founder, and Executive Director of Climate Mobilization Project, has refuted these a-psychological ideas on the individual and social psychology of the climate emergency in her research and writings, many of which provided the foundation for the messaging and tactics of the Climate Emergency Movement. Forthcoming March 2020, her new book Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, is a self-help book for reckoning with the Climate Emergency, processing and bearing the painful feelings that the truth brings, and critically, turning that pain into effective action. Early readers have reported a major increase in their personal dedication to the movement, with tangible results including donating to Climate Emergency Movement organizations, joining high profile publicity efforts, and bringing personal and professional networks into the movement.