Margaret Klein Salamon, executive director of the Climate Emergency Fund and author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth, wrote "If You’re Anxious About the Climate, Try This" (New York Times, May 1, 2022). In that essay, she says:
I resolved to use my psychological expertise to help Americans wake up from the delusion of normalcy, and treat climate like an emergency...In these “climate emotions conversations,” participants often speak of their grief, terror, rage, shock, betrayal, guilt and alienation.
Recognizing and expressing feelings is just the beginning. Once someone awakens to problems and feels motivated, they take action.
...in 2019, after weeks of protests that shut down parts of London led by the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, Britain declared a climate emergency and became the first major economy to legally commit to reaching “net zero” emissions by 2050.
Climate Emergency Fund supports...
...Scientist Rebellion, a group of over 1,000 scientists around the world. They are angry and fearful of climate change, and have engaged in various forms of civil disobedience including chaining themselves to the White House fence, and covering the Spanish Parliament building with paint the color of blood.
To stop human-caused climate change, the planet needs activists.
For more information, read Margaret Klein Salamon's book:
See also: "‘This Is The Team’: Collective Change on Climate". It's a 7-minute read on Medium. Medium lets you read a certain number of stories for free every month. You may also consider a paid membership on the platform.
By the way, Joe Walsh said in July 2022:
"Republicans have been obsessed for the last 30 to 40 years in fighting the fight at the state and local level. That's where they've been waging war. Democrats have been focusing on the national level and thinking every solution has to come out of Washington, D.C. The Democrats are getting their clocks cleaned at the state and local level because of that obsession."
Nothing reveals the failure of our political, cultural, legal, education, and media systems more clearly than their collective yawn over the day by day sliding toward losing essentially the whole fucking planet
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) July 17, 2022
A common assumption about public opinion and climate change is weather events will wake skeptics up to threats of a warming planet. This paper suggests an alternative scenario, affected voters turn *away* from green parties. Perhaps weather shocks are experienced by many first as economic shocks.
— Omar Wasow (@owasow.bsky.social) November 29, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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