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.
Comment on aral sea
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 1 year agoBut it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱
correlation 🤝 causation