Posted on 11/08/2022 8:32:15 PM PST by Paul R.
This is a video - no text is available other than the title: Why Russia Destroyed the World's 4th Biggest Lake
The political angles are interesting too. I took particular note of Stalin's manipulation of country borders and ethnicities, a long standing Russian strategy with no qualms about generations of bloodshed. But, the clumsiness of the whole enterprise is just as noteworthy.
Why not say the water body? It was the Aral sea, without looking it up.
When did that happen?!
Shouldn’t Greta, the Swedish meatball, be informed of this environmental disaster so that she may read Putin the riot act?
Best comparison in the US is to the Great Salt Lake which is becoming stressed and shrinking because of excessive exploitation of its feeder rivers for irrigation purposes. Exactly like the Aral Sea except less so.
Better (less click-baity) title would have been:
How the USSR's Stupid Water Management Policies Ruined the Aral Sea
Regards,
...and a problem that does not include the salt-storm and bioweapons exposures in the Aral situation that are truly horrific.
I took particular note of Stalin's manipulation of country borders and ethnicities, a long standing Russian strategy with no qualms about generations of bloodshed.
The UN's manipulation of the Tutsi and Hutu tribes of Rwanda helped create that terrible genocide as well.
The scriptures say you are either with God, or you are against him. This entire saga of atheist arrogance illustrates that point. Stalin's program created production cottonfields by diverting rivers to hydrate them; but the resulting drying of the lake is now salting those very lands, as well as melting the glaciers that supply those rivers. Starvation, thirst and warfare may well soon follow.
God is not mocked. What took God millions of years to create is being destroyed in less than a century; and the speed of destruction is accelerating due to the destrution's own internal aspects.
Maybe the title should been: How Soviet Russia Destroyed the World's 4th Biggest Lake, the Aral Sea.
That’d prolly draw more (and more irate) Russian trolls though... Might even out on the You Tube revenue...?
Seems reasonable to me. ;-)
Something that is not answered fully in these mini-documentaries and articles is “where does the water go”? Ok, yes, the majority is used for agriculture / irrigation, but, except for a small amount shipped out in produce sent outside of the region, I would think that it would end up evaporating, as groundwater, or (eventually) running back into the Great Salt Lake. If evaporating, it seems it would end up back in the cycle as rainwater on the watershed, much as before. As groundwater it should (eventually) help the lake too. But somewhere one of those loops must be substantially losing H2O. Hmmm...
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