Feisty Side of Fifty/Baby Boomer Women

I’ve always been proud to be a baby boomer. One of the major reasons for puffing out my chest and bragging about those in our age group is because of our commitment to positive change. Our parents’ generation, dubbed by Tom Brokaw as “the greatest,” certainly sacrificed considerably in the name of our country—but that wasn’t our bag.

Nope, we boomers weren’t so hot at self-sacrifice, but no other generation came together in numbers like ours and tried to right so many social ills. We mounted our movements in favor of civil rights and women’s rights, we questioned authority when we saw injustice, and we rallied against a war that many of us believed to be horribly misguided and destructive.

Now there is a challenge before us that is even more formidable than those we faced in earlier decades. There is indisputable scientific evidence that we’ve been harming our one and only home, planet earth, for years. We’ve loaded up our oceans and rivers with chemical waste, plastic, and other garbage; we’ve buried trash that won’t degrade for centuries; and we’ve spewed all sorts of horrible substances into the atmosphere. Even more frightening, nature’s greatest antidote to excess carbon dioxide, the rainforest, is being destroyed at an alarming rate.

Thankfully, our generation has another opportunity to change the world for the better. One of our own, a baby boomer himself, is spearheading a movement to save the world’s rainforests. Granted, he’s got a bit more clout than most of us—after all he is Prince Charles—and he’s putting his extensive resources into mounting the Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP).

I had the amazing opportunity to interview the Prince’s Communication’s Secretary, Paddy Harverson, and found out all about it. Take a listen—the interview is only 6 minutes long but it’s packed with information.

Here is your chance to join Sting, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford and many other celebrities to raise awareness and send out your own personal message to the world. All you need do is head over to the website www.rainforestSOS.org., sign up, and tell all your friends to do the same. When it comes to halting, or at least slowing, climate change, there is nothing more critical than a few seconds of effort by each one of us. If ever there was a cause and a time for boomers to join together again to change the world, this is it! Do it now and add your voice to the SOS campaign!

October 27th, 2009 | Category: Aging With Attitude, Inspiring Each Other, Of Mind and Matter | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL