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One longs for more such lightning flashes of wit to jolt a study that’s commendably ambitious - immigration, racism, technology and climate change are considered - but can be digressive and (at least for a “word person”) numbingly number-centric.īump is a columnist for The Washington Post with a 1950s egghead vibe who writes an appealing newsletter called How to Read This Chart. “We could simply take all of the land that’s part of the Walt Disney World complex and convert it into the most densely packed cemetery in North America,” he suggests. In his new book, “The Aftermath,” which considers the socioeconomic and political impact of America’s noisiest if no longer largest living generation, Bump measures the average coffin, multiplies its dimensions by the number of surviving people born in the United States between 19 - 74 millionish - and figures their corpses can be squeezed into 43 square miles.
Philip Bump, cynical Gen Xer, goes right there and then some. THE AFTERMATH: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America, by Philip Bumpīaby boomers, a reputedly upbeat lot, are probably not considering whether there will be enough space to inter them after they’ve all died.
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