Indeed. It’s gone since 2018. It took men 70 years to drain it. There is a time lapse of It’s last 18 years: Poof.
Now I’m sad.
:-(
Most of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.
the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects
This does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.
But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱
correlation 🤝 causation
That implication wasn’t made. The original comment mentions how it took men 70 years to drain it (meaning that the drainage started during the USSR), and the comment below does not challenge that fact.
Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.
Otherwise good tho
More like: 1989 (right), 2014 (wrong)
Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there’s actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?
because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?
The whole reason it dried up is that the rivers that fed it got diverted for irrigation.
It’s a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.
Now it’s a toxic desert.
When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”
