keccers
@keccers.eth
Aral Sea went from the third largest lake in the world to a salt desert https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea This is completely human caused — the whole thing was drained by people for irrigation It has set up the largest primary succession experiment ever — watching to see if anything grows in the salt desert left behind https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59560-8_5
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proxy
@proxystudio.eth
grim
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keccers
@keccers.eth
They low key felt at the time using up all the water was more important than preserving it. Way more cavalier than we might be. It’s wild
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Leo
@lsn
didn't they build lots of dams for energy which accelerated the drain?
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