The Boomers are leaving on a very bad note -- but they are leaving. They're leaving emptiness and wreckage as they head for the graveyards, but this is the second quarter of the 21st Century. It's not an era of Baby Boom Population Bomb. It's an era of radically shrinking populations and disturbed landscapes.
Bruce Sterling here in posts 117-121 on the complete destruction of the Republican party. [via Cory Doctorow, where it’s easier to read]