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Legacy of Statism: Aral sea completely gone
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:57 pm
For all the shite Capitalism gets about pollution and environmental degradation, the worst environmental disaster of the 20th/21st century was due to government planners:
Once vast Aral Sea dries up to nothing
If planners actually cared about profit and loss, this would have never happened. The amount of fish and fertile land lost probably amounts to billions of dollars.
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The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest lake. Now much of it is a vast toxic desert straddling the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two former Soviet states in central Asia.
In recently released images, NASA's Earth Observatory shows the extent of the lake's recession over the past 14 years.
The damage reached its peak this year, when the eastern lobe of the South Aral Sea -- which actually was the center of the original lake -- dried up completely.
Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was fed by two rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, which brought snowmelt from mountains to the southeast, and local rainfall. But in the 1960s the Soviet Union diverted water from the two rivers into canals to supply agriculture in the region.
With the loss of water, the lake began to recede and its salinity levels began to rise. Fertilizers and chemical runoff contaminated the lake bed. As the lakebed became exposed, winds blew the contaminated soil onto the surrounding croplands, meaning even more water was needed to make the land suitable for agriculture, according to an Earth Observatory release.
The falling water levels changed the local climate, too. Without the lake water to moderate temperatures, winters became colder and summers hotter, the Earth Observatory said.
Once vast Aral Sea dries up to nothing
If planners actually cared about profit and loss, this would have never happened. The amount of fish and fertile land lost probably amounts to billions of dollars.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yeah, but at least they got roads.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:01 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
No different than if an individual owned the rivers and decided to divert them.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 7:53 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Legacy of Statism: Aral sea completely gone
I read that as anal sea
but I though Communism was good for the enviroment?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:48 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Legacy of Statism: Aral sea completely gone
You lie! I still see lake in that picture.
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