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[–] 342345@feddit.de 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

correlation 🤝 causation

[–] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year 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.