the shrinking Aral Sea

an animation of the shrinking of the aral-sea (uzbekistan & kazakhstan) in the period of 1960 till now, caused by irrigation for the cotton monoculture and rendering central asia an area of environmental disaster, health problems and political instability. Also see the documentary on youtube, Delta Blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0465vGRWhQE

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• aral
• karakalpakstan
• uzbekistan
• cotton
• mirrormundo

[einsteinboricua]

This video should be updates. The Northern Aral Sea still lives and may return even bigger. The Southern Aral Sea, on the other hand, is doomed.

[salombebe]

human made disaster

[primevaltimes]

because its too late to bring it back

[Releaseish1]

It is not for the ineptitude of Central Asia nations but population growth industralisados​countries. why reserbas countries use the Aral Sea and the rivers that are stretched to such. these countries use water for agriculture and that agriculture is sold industrialis countries as the former USSR, France, Germany and UK

[guicapone2]

what really annoys me is the face yes,,they know the sea is shrinking and will continue to shirnk..why not fuckign do somethign about it??

[Denver5040]

@hellojulie was 20 years ago . but it is shrinking now becouse Kazahstan is not part of Russia anymore.

[hellojulie]

@Dimastttybiz it was part of the Soviet Union, the Soviets diverted the water for irrigation....approved by Moscow. Kazakhstan was a republic of CCCP

[hellojulie]

@Denver5040 Serbia was ethnically cleansing the Muslims of Bosnia and the Albanians of Kosovo. it wasnt without reason. and Kazakhstan was in the Soviet Union administered by Moscow. go fuck yourself. you did Chernobyl. you tested nuclear weapons too, you invaded Afghanistan, you kept Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain, put missiles in Cuba. shut up

[realistromeo]

One should look on a small bright side, i bet there are ancient discoveries to be made here, perhaps forgotten civilizations that roamed these flooded lands, perhaps...not a definite, but such rapid reclaimation of land in an area with thousands of years of history might be a rare chance to discover somewthing unexpected and new about or past after all the lake was slightly brine to begin with despite being fed by glacial waters ..... interesting hypothesis no?

[djuraman]

@DesertFoxKG fuck nato

[ungerfranz]

weg bist!

[DesertFoxKG]

Yes, and USA and Britain tested cluster bombs on civilian targets in Serbia during 90'.

FUCK BRITAIN!!!

FUCK USA!!!