1st Edition

Climate Change in an Aging Society

By Harry R. Moody Copyright 2025
294 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Climate Change in an Aging Society is the first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change on those who are old today—and those who will be old in decades to come. In doing so, Moody focuses on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; options for climate-conscious consumers; planning for investment for a... Read more

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 All 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. Fear and Hope in Climate Crisis

Biography

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).