Anna Anthro
Paul Chambers🚧Starting in 1960, It took man 34 years to turn the third-largest inland sea in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea, into a literal dry, polluted desert.
BunNICKula🇨🇦@paul
A neighbour of mine was an environmental geographer. She did her research on the Aral Sea in the 80s and 90s. Re-directing water, loading it with poisons and basically killing it off was just one of the many Soviet era catastrophes. Funny thing is we compared notes on what the capitalists have done to water around the world, not a lot of difference.
Crystal_Fish_Caves@paul My dream job is What On Earth? series where people look at earth from space find weird looking shit and go find out wtf? About half of them are ecological disasters in russia; weird color polluted lakes sites of explosions strange contamination from irresponsible mining.
Problem with Autocrats is they are in it for themselves dont give a crap about their people or environment.
SURE GLAD WE DONT HAVE THAT IN US 
GhostOnTheHalfShellEven so it’s slightly recovering, but I have to imagine that the combination of climate change and the huge regional consequences of “water management” projects plus all the immeasurable amounts of industrial pollution, will lead this area scarred for thousands of years.
Most of the destruction occurred under the USSR which embrace the concept that science and technology could drive a bulldozer over the natural world and achieve infinite productivity
cobalt
puretaste