Comment on aral sea
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months agothe Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects
Comment on aral sea
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months agothe Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects
sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 3 months ago
This does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 3 months ago
But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱
correlation 🤝 causation
sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 3 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.