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The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning for investment for a green retirement; and opportunities for political action.
List of contents
1. Climate Change: Here-Now-You-Hope
Part I: Climate Change and Aging in Place 2. The Fire Next Time: Wildfire 3. Flood: The Water Will Come
Part II: Health and Age in a Warming World 4. Heat Wave: The Heat Is On 5. Drought: Where Did the Water Go?
Part III: Ethics 6. Who Is to Blame for Global Warming? The Wealthy, Rich Countries, Big Business, Older People 7. What Should We Do? No Time for Excuses
Part IV: Actions 8. Becoming a Climate-Conscious Consumer 9. Investment for a Green Retirement 10. Citizen Climate Action
Part V: Hope 11. Climate Hope and Fear: Waking from the Dream
About the author
Harry R. Moody is Visiting Faculty in the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Program of Fielding Graduate University, USA. He is former Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs at AARP in Washington and is currently the editor of the popular
Human Values in Aging monthly newsletter. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging, and in 2008 he was named by
Utne Reader Magazine as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." He is the author of
Ethics in an Aging Society (1992),
Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (1988), and over 100 scholarly articles. He is also the co-author of
Aging: Concepts and Controversies (10th edition, 2020),
Gerontology: The Basics (Routledge, 2018),
Dignity and Old Age (Routledge, 1998), and
The Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages That Shape Our Lives (1997), and the editor of
Religion, Spirituality, and Aging: A Social Work Perspective (Routledge, 2005).
Summary
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning for investment for a green retirement; and opportunities for political action.
