New data reveals Canada's senior population is expected to exceed 11 million people by 2043. This rapid rise in the number of older Canadians will have wide-reaching implications on sectors such as health care and employment, with experts sounding the alarm that Canada is not prepared to handle an aging population.

New data reveals Canada’s senior population is expected to exceed 11 million people by 2043. This rapid rise in the number of older Canadians will have wide-reaching implications on sectors such as health care and employment, with experts sounding the alarm that Canada is not prepared to handle an aging population.

I’m also an early millenial / late GenX and broadly support the things you mention.

At the same time, how do you explain that earlier generations were happy to start families well before national pharma care, etc.? Before people were concerned with the climate crisis they were terrified of a population explosion (hence China’s one-child policy), nuclear war, etc.

My intuition is that the difference is that they were more financially stable and they were able to maintain a family with a single income, which provided them with both the money and the time that raising children require. So, maybe we should focus on that instead.

In earlier decades there was inherently more financial security because corporations were shamed more for being greedy assholes - now we praise greed and shame “inefficiently generous” corporations… that change means that we need programs like pharma-care and ubi to achieve the same security.

For fossil fuels… well, we’re fucking boned. I’m fine, I’m a millennial so I’ll probably be dead before it gets really bad but Gen Alpha is absolutely fucked. I’m not going to subject a child to the utter devastation our political incompetence has pretty much guaranteed.

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