GRAND Magazine - Winter 2024 - 39
grand finale
Will your grandkids be
there to see it?
BY RICK MOODY
I
'm 78 years old, and I've been working in the
" aging business " since 1971. I have spent more
than half a century, most of my life in senior centers,
higher education (Hunter College), AARP, and
Fielding Graduate University. As we say in gerontology,
I've been " aging in place. " Eventually, I became
a specimen for what I was studying. Trained first as a
philosopher, not a gerontologist, I see I've had only
one purpose: positive aging.
"
No, you will live to see it. You have
lived to see it.
It's already here, all around us.
"
Now, I've turned most of my attention to climate,
and for good reason. Unless we can fix the platform
where we're living-Planet Earth-we have no hope
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for a good old age. For our successors, things could
be worse.
In a newsletter, I spoke about when I gave a presentation
on climate, and an elder came up to me
afterward to say: " Oh, Dr. Moody, what you said was
so powerful. I'm just glad I won't be there to see it. "
Her comment took me aback, but I didn't know
what to reply. Since that day, I've thought about that
conversation and realized I could have told her, " No,
you will live to see it. You have lived to see it. It's
already here, all around us. " I could have gone further
and been more critical. Do any of us have the right to
be content no longer to see what our hands have left
to those who will come after us? Can we prepare for
what is already unfolding if we only open our eyes?
Harry (Rick) Moody, Ph.D., retired as
P.S. A good start would be to get this app for
Climate Action Now
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Vice President for Academic Affairs with
AARP and is currently Visiting Faculty at
Fielding Graduate University and Tohoku
University in Japan. He previously served
as Executive Director of the Brookdale
Center on Aging at Hunter College and
Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel
(now Road Scholar). He is a granddad
who cares passionately about the future
of all grandchildren,
Learn more about Climate and
Aging and Rick here
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