Comment on aral sea

• 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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