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minus-square342345@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up108arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoIndeed. 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.
minus-squareREEEEvolution@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down22·4 months agoMost of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·4 months ago the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·4 months agoThis does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.
minus-squareOldWoodFrame@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·4 months agoBut it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
minus-squaremanuallybreathinglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agonext you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱 correlation 🤝 causation
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·4 months agoThat 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.
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.
:-(
Most of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.
This does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.
But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱
correlation 🤝 causation
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.