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The Pinch: How the baby boomers took their children's future and why they should give it back. London: Atlantic Books. Frischmann, B. (2005) "Some Thoughts on Shortsightedness and Intergenerational Equity", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 36.
Eco-anxiety that is now affecting young adults has been likened to Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation felt by baby boomers. [12] Research has found that although there are heightened emotional experiences linked with acknowledgement and anticipation of climate change and its impact on society, these are inherently adaptive. [7]
As of 2017, many of these Baby Boomers had celebrated their 60th birthdays, and so, over the late 2010s and early 2020s, America's senior citizen population increased. The generation gap, however, between the Baby Boomers and earlier generations is growing due to the Boomers population post-war. [clarification needed] There is a large ...
From there, the midpoint birth year of each generation was used for comparison: 1955 for baby boomers, 1972 for Generation X, 1988 for millennials and 2004 for Generation Z.
But even then empty nest Baby Boomers had the most large homes. In 2012, empty-nest boomers, who were then aged 48 to 66, owned and occupied 26.4% of three-bedroom-plus homes in the U.S ...
Counterculture environmentalists were quick to grasp the implications of Ehrlich's writings on overpopulation, the Hubbert "peak oil" prediction, and more general concerns over pollution, litter, the environmental effects of the Vietnam War, automobile-dependent lifestyles, and nuclear energy. More broadly they saw that the dilemmas of energy ...
Baby boomers need more money to retire today than retirees did in the 1970s. The average monthly Social Security benefit in 1975 was nearly $200 compared to about $1,900 for retired workers today.
A 2020 survey conducted for Newsround of Britons aged 8 to 16 suggested that 80% of young Generation Z viewed climate change as a problem, with more than a third thinking it was "very important". 58% of respondents worried about the impact that climate change would have on their future. 19% said they faced nightmares about the topic whilst 17% ...