Deadliest Roads - Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is a country overflowing with culture and joy and music, cuisine, art, world heritage sites, multi lingual diversity. But this episode of Deadliest Roads is showing the hardships this vast expanse of country and the people living there face; the downside of what happens when nobody cares about those who tend the land, live off the land, are at one with nature, and what happens to them when all that is taken away - exploited by ruthless exploiters and cruel chains of events (and the here unnamed and seemingly invisible entities who set that chain reaction of devastation into motion)

Some facts that aren’t that fun. But we - as consumers - need to know what happens in communities even when they’re far away. Whether you realize it or not, we do influence what can or can’t happen. Because I’m pretty sure the cotton jeans you’re wearing or I’m wearing, come from cotton farmed in an area that probably isn’t treating its workers or the land well. Supply/Demand. If we demand fair trade, organic farming, are willing to pay higher prices and just buy less, our behavior as consumers can help change the lives of people. Not overnight. But we do have the power to change things. Remember that.