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Wikipedia is one click away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

Formerly the third-largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size

former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the shrinking of the Aral Sea “one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters”.

The Aral Sea region is heavily polluted, with consequent serious public health problems. UNESCO has added historical documents concerning the Aral Sea to its Memory of the World Register as a resource to study the environmental tragedy.

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you are aware we didn’t have the same complete view of climate change 80-100 years ago like we have now, right?

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And yet the Soviet authorities repeated the same mistakes themselves.

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What does the Aral sea have to do with climate change? The point is that communism doesn’t have any kind of inherent conservationist tendency to it.

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and has not been prioritized.

if you want a fair assessment of how socialism deals with climate change in the 21st century, take a small look at china.

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So instead of learning from previous mistakes, the communists repeated it themselves.

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