We are entering a new age of global environmental awareness, and this is affecting all of us, not just in what we see and read in the media, but also directly in the form of extreme weather, changes in animal populations, changes in crop patterns. Our lives are changing due to the inaction of the generations that came before us, and the malicious activities of those people in power whose interests meant that people were not told the true scale of the damage that was happening to our world.

There are 36 million people aged over 65 in the USA; in the United Kingdom there are 9 million; in Germany, 16 million; in Canada, 4 million; in France, 10 million. National elections have swung on a just a few hundred votes.

There is a very large group of people who have time to spare, and the motivation to change things for the better. They are the Green Seniors, and you could well be one of them, just by having taken the time to read this.

We at  http://www.greenseniors.org believe that all that time and energy can make an impact where it is most needed, whether that be as an individual writing letters and informing friends; people acting together in a small community group to raise awareness of environmental issues, changing the behaviour of a town’s citizens or businesses; networks of people and groups spread across a large area, working together to ensure that state and national governments or multinationals listen to the concerns of ordinary people. In fact there is no limit to the number of ways that people can work together or alone – if the message is clear enough then things will change through your actions.

So tell the world that there is a way that everyone - whatever their age, whatever their ability – can reverse the damage we have done. The Green Seniors are coming.