Sue Moon’s Blog

We baby boomers always knew we were special, but it is only now that we can understand how. We are distinguished not by our size, wealth, or colorful past, but because we are the first humans in history who have had to answer this simple question: How much do I care about future generations?

Much is riding on the answer to this question – not only the quality of life of tens of billions of our descendants, who have no less right to decent lives than we do, but also our own quality of life in the short time we have left. There is, it turns out, something worse than dying. It is to die knowing that we have failed all who will follow us.

As individuals there is both little and much we can do. We cannot hope to reverse the course of evolution on our own. But we can, each of us transform ourselves. We can stop our present way of life and begin instead, on our own, to live for future generations. Our individual acts, by themselves, will change nothing. But if enough follow, our cumulative actions will transform everything, in the only way that fundamental change has ever occurred: person by person, life by life, dream by dream. –Fred Branfman in the book: Imagine