I wrote this morning about the impact of aging baby boomers:

“To top it all off,  we have a crisis of governance, with baby boomers voting to elect conservative and populist governments who promise to keep things the way they are, who won’t do anything about climate change,  who won’t raise the taxes needed to fix what we have, let alone plan for the future.  We have baby boomers who fight every bike lane or transit line because it might slow down their driving or remove their parking. Who don’t think about how they will get around when they are old-old and can’t drive anymore. Who don’t think about who will care for them when all the drawbridges are pulled up.

This is our crisis scenario, about a decade from now when we have 70 million seriously ageing baby boomers, mostly alone, trapped in their suburban homes that they cannot afford to keep cool or dry because of a rapidly changing climate, possibly in the middle of an intergenerational political war.