Importance of Baby Boomers



Importance of Baby Boomers

Introduction

Each generation emerges amid a set of experiences and events that will forever influence the collective or normative personality of that age cohort. Curiosity and concern about how boomers or war babies or millennia's will behave politically sociologically or economically overflow the bookshelves and fill popular media. However, the manner in which these same groups view and use geographic space, how they migrate and move, where they choose to live, and how they interact with their physical environment is receiving comparatively less attention in both popular and academic literature. This is unfortunate because, ultimately, geographic questions of land use, global changes, and resource depletion are equally as significant as a generation's propensity to change jobs, buy on credit, or prefer American-made to imported brands. Generational shifts in geographic behaviors will largely determine the future course of human events and welfare. Fundamental to this analysis are issues of location, movement, impacts on the environment, and generational assessments of these geographic relationships in the past and present. Therefore, all the issues related to impact of baby boomers and illicit drug use on society will be discussed in detail.

Background of the problem

The concept of baby boomers has always been quite popular in many countries. The usage of illicit drugs and its financial cost has a strong relation with the generation of baby boomers. It has often been said that generations, like people, have distinct personalities, and that these personalities are defined by rapid demographic changes or key geographical or historic events. There are indeed many factors that have shaped America's generational personalities in the past 100 years. The Greatest Generation, or those Americans born before 1928, is best remembered for having survived the Great Depression and fought and won World War II. In contrast, the Silent Generation born between 1928 and 1945 named for their conformity and civic mindedness are children of the Great Depression. Baby boomers were born in large numbers between 1946 and 1964 until their demographic boom ended with the arrival of the birth control pill. Generations X (1965-1980) were originally called the baby bust generation due to the decline in population growth that followed the advent of the pill. The newest generation of Americans or those persons born roughly between 1980 and into the 21st century has been dubbed the millennia's, a name that seems to have stuck, although other names such as the next generation have also been employed. Millennial constitute a significantly large group of individuals that are often disaggregated into two cohorts: Generation Y (1978-1990) and Generation Z (1991- present). However, this larger millennial moniker is most appropriate, for most have come of age during the transition into a new, dynamic 21st century (DeMartini, 1992, 463).

The trend of baby boomers

Whereas technology, policies, and perceptions have pushed members of the millennial cohort away from direct contact with nature, baby boomers have increasingly gravitated toward natural spaces, a trend that carries with it new sets of ...