What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 83 Margaret Klein Salamon
By Vicky Robin, Resilience.org
Show Notes
Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund. She is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people to face the truth of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She founded and directed The Climate Mobilization from 2014-2020, advocating an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. She is the Founding Principal of Climate Awakening, a project to unleash the power of climate emotions through scalable small group conversations. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency.
She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
The need for a widescale consciousness shift to prioritize climate mobilization
That “operating in emergency mode is incredibly powerful once you get there”, as seen in World War Two
The psychological defenses being used during this climate emergency, such as compartmentalization, wilful ignorance and intellectualization
The self-growth from “really trying to face the climate emergency and process it emotionally”, then becoming an activist
The drive to action from the “combination of morality with something new…like enlightened self interest.”
