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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

correlation 🤝 causation

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.

Otherwise good tho

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More like: 1989 (right) and 2014 (wrong)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there's actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

The whole reason it dried up is that the rivers that fed it got diverted for irrigation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It's a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Now it's a toxic desert.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”