Book: Facing the Climate Emergency

A beloved, radical self-help book.

Facing the Climate Emergency:

How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth

by Margaret Klein Salamon with Molly Gage

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Yes, we’re facing catastrophic breakdown of our climate. But you don’t have to be paralyzed by your fear, grief, and you don’t have to be alone. You can use your pain to transform yourself, your friends, and your world. You can find your true purpose and become the hero humanity needs.

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This book will wake you up, no matter how aware you think you are. Better still: it tells you what to do once you are awake. Read it!

David Wallace-WellsNew York Times Climate Journalist and Author, the Uninhabitable Earth

This book is a guide through the difficult emotions of climate activism, and we are lucky to have it. It helped me understand how I cope with the enormity of the challenges we face, and I bet it can help you too.

Vanessa NakateFounder Rise Up Movement

Guides us on the inner journey involved in embracing the truths about the climate crisis, processing our upset over its severity, and awakening the love and courage it will take to solve it.

Marianne WilliamsonPresidential Candidate, Activist, spiritual leader, best-selling author, A Politics of Love

Facing the Climate Emergency is an invaluable roadmap for everyone who wants to move beyond despair into effective action. Read it and let's get to work!

Annie LeonardCo- Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

Both intellectually rigorous and emotionally attuned to the needs of readers, Facing the Climate Emergency is unique in its field. ...I pray that her work continues and grows. God knows we need it.

Paul EnglerDirector of the Center for the Working Poor in Los Angeles, a co-founder of the Momentum Training, and co-author, with Mark Engler, of "This Is An Uprising."

This is one of the most hopeful books I’ve read in recent years.

Jamila RaqibPresident of the Albert Einstein Institution

This is the most powerful, honest, and psychologically astute book on climate change I’ve ever read.

Richard HeinbergSenior Fellow Post Carbon Institute

Do yourself and your loved ones a favor and read this book. There is no way around the crisis we face, and no way around the dread we feel except to gather up our courage and fight like hell for the Earth's future. I'm transformed and you will be too.

Abigail DisneyAbigail Disney, Emmy-winning documentary producer and director, philanthropist, and activist

Margaret’s prescient writing and unflinching honesty helped to inform much of the psychological groundwork that underpins the work and philosophies of XR and the entire climate emergency movement.

Gail BradbrookCo-founder of Extinction Rebellion