Timeless: Elder Respect

Julie has noticed that in most cultures, older people get treated with a lot of deference and respect while little kids are ignored… In the United States we have precisely inverted that. Topics include: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman imprisons Twitter dissidents; India tries to police religious conversions; one of the US’s largest grid operators released a report about the power supply and demand through 2030 across the 13 states in its territory covering 65M people. It said that fossil fuel power plants are retiring much faster than renewable sources are getting development which could lead to energy “imbalances.”