Comment on aral sea

• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects

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  • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.

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    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.

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      • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱

        correlation 🤝 causation

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      • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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