fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 1 year agoaral seaimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1593arrow-down111
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minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·1 year 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-down10·1 year agoThis does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.
minus-squareOldWoodFrame@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·1 year agoBut it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.
minus-squaremanuallybreathing@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agonext you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱 correlation 🤝 causation
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·1 year 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.
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.