Why the Soviets Erased the worlds 4th Largest Lake...
发布时间 2022-01-21 16:00:15 来源
摘要
The Aral Sea in 2022 is almost nonexistent. The Aral Sea has been rapidly disappearing over the last six decades making it the worst manmade natural disaster in history. Once the fourth largest lake, constituting 1% of Earths entire supply of Fresh Water, the Aral Sea now stands as a toxic wasteland. In this video we explore the incredibly interesting Story of the Aral sea from its creation to its destruction finishing up by answering the question, Can the Aral Sea be restored?
If you look at any geography textbook from the 1960s or prior you're bound to see a list of the world's largest lakes. However in every subsequent textbook one lake, the Aral Sea Which for reference is the size of Ireland, has been steadily and rapidly dropping in Rank to its lowest place of 22nd largest, that is of course if you count it all together as the sea has separated into multiple smaller sections. In just 5 decades the vibrant Aral sea has lost 90% of its original surface area representing a loss of 1% of Earth's entire supply of Surface fresh water. What was once a thriving ecological and economic zone within the heart of Central Asia has quickly become one of if not these worst human made natural catastrophes in history. This Coupled with its relative lack of attention on the global stage has earned the disaster the moniker, The silent Chernobyl. What at first may appear as just the loss of a large lake is in actuality the stage and root for modern child slavery in the region, biological weapon leaks, sever regional climate change, one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world and cancer rates that are 20 times above global average. The Story of the Aral Sea is as much a story about human hubris as it is about economic strife, utopian visions of the future, geopolitical tensions, and ultimately hope.
--Contents of this video--------------------------------
00:00 - Uzbekistan's White Gold
01:31 - The Shrinking of the Aral Sea
02:56 - How the Aral Sea was Created
04:18 - The Russian Empire
04:55 - Stalin's Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
06:45 - What happened to the Aral sea?
07:14 - Aralsk-7
08:02 - The Toxic Wasteland
09:08 - Can the Aral sea be restored?
10:16 - The Future of the Aral Sea
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--Sources used---------------------------------------------
Books:
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Scholarly Articles:
- http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6702/2011sp/readings/AralSea2011.pdf
- https://www.economist.com/banyan/2010/05/14/and-its-good-night-from-the-aral-sea
- https://www.economist.com/asia/2000/06/29/saving-the-last-drop
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/28/international-cotton-boycott-uzbekistan
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