Just putting this out there for comparison:
Documentary on Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan
Documentary on Mongolia
Seems like climate change is going to bring some harsh truths for all the world. I hope it doesn't lead to fighting. In the words of Rodney King, "Can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it horrible for the older people, and the kids?"
I hope we can get behind that kind of sentiment to just a tiny degree. I am such a coward. I saw someone idling their car in an NJ parking lot for more than an hour on a perfectly mild spring day, just to maintain some kind of idealized "climate control", and yet I couldn't bring myself to say something to them. We'll see about whether "climate control" is possible in the next decade.
I love the emphasis on the ritual snuff sniffing in the Mongolia video. Snuff is such a complex topic, dating back to the early days of English tobacco consumption. I can imagine Richardson taking a pinch to aide his writer's cramp from endless pages of Clarissa. My own tobacco cessation took a long detour through the snuff-lands and the traditional English snuff producers. Sniffing snuff has a lot of positive aspects in comparison to smoking or dipping, as long as one has a lot of hankies on hand...
It is so intriguing to observe the snuff-bottles preferred in Mongolia (as originally introduced through China). More than intriguing, it induces a desire to start collecting those snuff bottles, as I came perilously close to doing. Instead, I quit tobacco altogether. I hope that was the right decision...
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