How the Boomers Will Pay Back

John Elkington

February 25, 2010

David Metz, former Chief Scientist at the UK Department of Transport and one of the brains trust we are assembling for our project on ageing, entrepreneurship and sustainability, forwarded me a link to an interesting piece John Lloyd just did in the Financial Times. Far from pessimistic, Lloyd argues that rather than turning into selfish protectors of the status quo, Boomers will seek to repay the surplus they have taken out. “Watch this becoming a large political project of our next decade,” he concludes, “a planned and enabled use of the sap and vigour left in the autumnal generation, so that the younger ones see not a population of the demented, dependent old, but men and women alive and engaged in the possibilities of the world they will leave to their youngers and betters.”