Lifespan management, for instance, examines the critical question of how long boomers will remain healthy and productive. Then there is the personal wealth issue with the latest financial crisis, many boomers having seen declines in their net worth.
It is predicted that boomers may face the real possibility of a collapse of living systems in their lifetimes. Food, energy, and materials may well undergo disruptions as climate changes and water crises become realities.
We won't run out of food and water, The One will save us.
And yeah, many in our parents generation didn't have to worry about the dissipation of wealth, nor about long lifespans.
It's tough to be a boomer.
Liberals can’t cope, Conservatives know how.
There was a great movie on YouTube about these two people who were on an escalator that stopped. They stood there hollering for help just like typical Lib’s .... they couldn’t figure out that all they had to do is just walk up the stopped escalator - they wanted someone to walk down to get them ....
“forming economic, health, and social collectives and families “
oh boy, I’m going to be in a rest home run by an incontinent che guavera demanding that I share my wheat germ stockpile with the collective.
Oh please. There are any number of fat, juicy morsels running around the malls.
I figure a couple of hundred a year before anyone notices.
*And as a bonus, the food on the hoof is all liberal! Less democrat voters.
They have been a wrecking ball throughout our society. From the first days of drugs and sex at colleges, to domination and destruction of education, to our huge national debt, our housing crash, and soon on to permanently wreck Social Security.
Thanks Boomers, you were wonderful to this country.
(yea, yea, some Boomers are good conservatives, but as a generation, they have left nothing in their wake)
I’ve always taken issue with the 1946-1964 Boomer definition. I was born in ‘61, and have very little in common with those born in the forties and fifties. I was watching Captain Kangaroo during the Summer of Love.
Living systems? Perhaps their greed and short sightedness will force them back to the communes they once idolized?
Damn!, I like that.
"healthy and productive" -- according to whom?
This is shaping up to be an awfully apocolyptic sounding era.
Wow! Now I know what BO meant by lowering the water levels.
I'm a boomer. Listening to boomers, whose discourse tends to be ignorant and self-referential, is usually like watching paint dry.
My hair is so very gray, so please forgive me for not knowing where “we” fit!
DH was born in ‘39, and me in ‘43. We raised 4 wonderful children. Three of them are all self-supporting, giving back citizens. One didn’t make it past 21, due to a heart defect from birth.
We, as parents, self-employed, struggled over the years to deal with ever-changing tax laws, interest rates, and economic booms and busts.
We paid and paid and paid into the Fed Gov. And, we are now struggling with the inevitable diseases of decline, Parkinsons’s, Arthritis, Fibro, etc.
What should we do? Follow the Amer-Indian tradition, so our children will not be hampered in their efforts to survive? If you do not think this is a conservative question, then you are not really a conservative, are you?
While you all bash the boomers, please consider that some of us did our best to hold down the fort, while the MSM did everything within their power to elevate the ridiculous among us, and never paid much attention to those of us who kept on doing our best.
In summary, think about who you all are blaming for the disaster that is about to befall all of us, and it is not the people, but it is the media and their sycophants, the MSM.
“And yeah, many in our parents generation didn’t have to worry about the dissipation of wealth, nor about long lifespans.”
What a load of BS!
Most of my generation are still going strong in their 70s and 80s.
I can name on one hand the number of relatives on both sides of my family that have died (other than in war) under 90 in the last 200 years.