Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: A New Strategy for the Climate Movement

by Margaret Klein SalamonClimate psychology, Climate Writing, Emotions, Living in Climate Truth, Moral Responsibility, Social Movements, Strategy, The Climate Mobilization, The Climate MovementPosted on 5 Comments

  I published Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: a New Strategy for the Climate Movement in 2016. I published an updated version, Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: Introducing the Climate Emergency Movement in 2019, reflecting the development that a climate emergency movement, as I imagined years before and attempted to lay groundwork for, had finally arrived. …

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Introducing the Emergency Climate Movement

by Margaret Klein SalamonClimate psychology, Living in Climate Truth, Social Movements, Strategy, The Climate Mobilization, The Climate MovementPosted on 2 Comments

I am very pleased that my article, The Emergency Climate Movement has been shared on EcoWatch more than 600 times. I am working to get it posted on other blogs, too, so why not start with The Climate Psychologist 🙂 Introducing the Emergency Climate Movement We are living in a state of planetary emergency. To …

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The Transformative Power of Climate Truth: Illustrated (and updated)

by Margaret Klein SalamonClimate psychology, Emotional growth, Pope Francis, Presidential Politics, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on 2 Comments

I am extremely pleased to announce The Transformative Power of Climate Truth, Illustrated Version! The main addition here are the beautiful illustrations and formatting are by Katharine Woodman-Maynard, The Climate Mobilization’s lead graphic designer. This version is updated to reflect recent events in The Climate Mobilization and in the climate movement more generally. The main addition …

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Mobilize Iowa: The Climate Mobilization Enters Presidential Politics

by Margaret Klein SalamonReader involvement, Social Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on No Comments

The Climate Mobilization is ready to enter presidential politics, and bring the need for a WWII-scale Climate Mobilization into the national conversation. Ed Fallon, a former 14-year Iowa state legislator, veteran organizer, talk radio host, and accomplished climate activist, has agreed to lead a Climate Mobilization organizing effort in Iowa! Ed will use the Pledge to …

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What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication

by Margaret Klein SalamonClimate psychology, Living in Climate Truth, Moral Responsibility, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on 3 Comments

This article was originally posted on Common Dreams   Why are we morally obligated to fight climate change? 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, …

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First Video! Introducing The Climate Mobilization

by Margaret Klein SalamonClimate Change Denial, Climate psychology, Strategy, The Climate Mobilization, VideoPosted on No Comments

What a weekend! The People’s Climate March was an absolutely outstanding, beautiful experience, and The Climate Mobilization had a great launch! Here is a brief update on our March activities. We talked with tons of Marchers about the Pledge, gained many allies, and received an exciting, if surprising, amount of press attention!  But since this is …

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Rising to the Challenge of Our Time, Together: Introducing the Pledge to Mobilize

by Margaret Klein SalamonSocial Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on No Comments

Below is Rising to the Challenge of Our Time, Together–the strategy document for  The Climate Mobilization. (Or read it as a PDF) It was written by myself and Ezra Silk, with help from several allies especially Phillip Sutton, who basically wrote the appendix. It is an update of Rising which was published in February. We came a long way as an organization …

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Demands for the People’s Climate March and Beyond: Introducing the Pledge To Mobilize

by Margaret Klein SalamonSocial Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on No Comments

A Movement and a March: Full of Possibilities The People’s Climate March September 21st will likely be the largest march for climate action that has ever taken place. We should be grateful to the organizers and sponsoring organizations for putting so much time, energy, and resources into persuading tens (or hundreds!) of thousands of people to come …

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Yale Poll: Millions of Americans Would Take a Climate Pledge!

by Margaret Klein SalamonCivil Rights Movement, Social Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on No Comments

Ever wonder: “Who would sign the Pledge to Mobilize? Could such an idea ever get mainstream traction?” This is a crucial question, that Yale’s Climate Change Communication team has helped answer! Their just-released poll shows that: “Millions of registered voters* would sign a pledge to vote for, would work for, or would give money to candidates who …

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“Launch The Climate Mobilization” Fundraiser (and slideshow!)

by Margaret Klein SalamonReader involvement, Social Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on No Comments

Allies-I have exciting news. The Climate Mobilization is very close to launch. Only one hurdle stands in our way from having TCM website built and beginning to spread the Pledge to Mobilize: we need to raise approximately $20,000 to pay for the design, programming, and other miscellaneous launch expenses. To accomplish this, we have begun an …

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Think Before You Act(ivism)

by Margaret Klein SalamonAnxiety, Social Movements, Strategy, ThinktivismPosted on 10 Comments

An important goal of many therapies is for the patient to develop the capacity to reflect before acting. This may sound easy, but when people are overwhelmed by emotional distress, to act is a natural response. The key, then, is to make emotional distress less overwhelming. Psychologists talk about “Affect Tolerance” which means the ability …

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State of the Blog: Request for Reader Assistance!

by Margaret Klein SalamonState of the blog, StrategyPosted on 8 Comments

The Climate Psychologist opened to the public one week ago  with the publication of my article  “Living in Climate Truth”/  (alternatively titled) “Our Society is Living in a Massive Lie about the Threat of Climate Change—Its time to Wake Up.” It has been an exciting start. Living in Climate Truth has been shared on FB …

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Let’s Open Source Strategy for the Human Climate Movement

by Margaret Klein SalamonHuman Climate Movement, Open Sourcing, Social Movements, StrategyPosted on 13 Comments

Humanity is at a crossroads. Will we go over the cliff of climate change? Will we stay asleep at the wheel, becoming the passive victims of floods, droughts, food insecurity, extreme weather, and disease? Or will we wake up to the terrible danger we are in, and fight back, together? Will we collectively rise to …

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Fighting Climate Change is different than Fighting for Civil Rights: Part I, Strategy Analysis and Critique

by Margaret Klein SalamonAnxiety, Civil Rights Movement, Climate Change Denial, Human Climate Movement, Social Movements, StrategyPosted on 2 Comments

Part I: A Psychologically and Technologically Informed Strategic Critique Introduction: The Human Climate Movement draws much of its strategy and tactics from the Civil Rights Movement; they engage in marches, demonstrations, and similar civil disobedience. For example, scientists and citizens handcuff themselves to the White House gates and face arrest, echoing the tactic of lunch …

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Fighting Climate Change is Different From Fighting for Civil Rights Part II, Strategy Proposal

by Margaret Klein SalamonAnxiety, Civil Rights Movement, Climate Change Denial, Human Climate Movement, Social Movements, StrategyPosted on 14 Comments

(Return to Part 1: Strategy Analysis and Critique)   Introduction In the previous section, I have delineated the ways in which the Human Climate Movement shares goals with the Civil Rights Movement, but differs in the barriers to those goals, and the technological context.  I argue that both movements must 1) empower their membership, 2) …

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