SENIOR RESOURCES
Climate Information: Senior Resources
Recommended reading
Positive Tipping Points: how to fix the climate crisis by Tim Lenton published by Oxford University Press.
ALSO, the Government report about ecosystem collapse and National Security here:
Recommended listening Recent BBC Radio 4 play The Book Club (45 mins) about Seniors and public protest.
LATEST RECOMMENDED VIEWING: Michael Sheen and "You Told Us To Talk About The Weather" here. 5 minute video clip with a frightening poem by Emma Louise Howell.
We are not alone! Across the world there are other organizations that are working along similar lines to us: Have a look at this: Our Kids’ Climate, an anchor organization for the global movement of parents, grandparents and concerned adults taking action to protect children from the impact of the climate crisis.
Climate anxiety: BBC World Service 25 minute programme here.
For information and articles on the subject of mental health and climate change, click here.
Here's a bit of psychology from the European Grandparents for Climate: Cognitive Dissonance and the Climate Crisis (European Grandparents for Climate, Psychology Working Group April 2026). Why do informed, well-meaning people continue behaviours that contribute to a crisis they acknowledge is real? The answer lies not in ignorance or indifference but in cognitive dissonance -- the psychological tension that arises when knowledge and action contradict each other.... Read more......
Pollution is a climate issue, and, as with most woes, affects people unequally, also in the UK.
Effects of air pollution (and, more positively, green spaces) on children's developing minds. 30-minute Youtube clip here.
Water pollution is a constant problem, from agricultural land run-offs and sewage discharge
(see www.Earthwatch.org.uk) with a million incidents of sewage discharges reported in the UK in 2024
(Environment Agency).
Becky Lovegrove from Green and Healthy Frome (Somerset) spoke to us at our monthly Open Meeting on 1st April on the links between Climate Change and Health. You can watch her talk on our YouTube channel, or see her slides here:
Insurance is a climate change issue and an issue for future generations. It's a double issue. More and more people in the UK are living on potential flood plains. Who is going to insure their houses? Our own Pensions and Finance Working Group is looking at this issue.
You may want to check the possibility of finding a more ethical insurer yourself. Here is a brief guide from The Ethical Consumer:
Even the re-insurers, the companies that insure the insurance companies are getting worried:
https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/press-briefing-is-insurance-the-next-big-climate-story/
And there's more: From time to time there are street protests across the UK (as in Bristol, see picture below) against the insurance companies that are themselves investing heavily in fossil-fuels. Howdens have cosy-looking "local" insurance offices in over 100 towns in the UK, and offices in 50 other countries. Apart from household insurance, they also insure fossil fuel companies and re-insure other insurance companies.
