We don't destroy the Earth. We just simply make it uninhabitable for us to live on. The Earth will go on far longer then us.
@bored.in.california21119 жыл бұрын
THAN
@TheMrZombieCat9 жыл бұрын
Bored.In.California grammar nazi
@shaggybreeks9 жыл бұрын
Duh, nobody' worried about the planet falling apart and disappearing.
@ahlee25376 жыл бұрын
exactly
@aaronvenia61936 жыл бұрын
Splitting hairs. Pubic hairs.
@nokiot97 жыл бұрын
Same thing happened to the Santa Rita river here in Tucson. They diverted it for crops and the entire thing dried up. Water table receded more than 150 feet in the years since. Cotton is a beast of a crop that needs tons of water to prosper.
@willymunksby751811 ай бұрын
Same thing is currently happening with the Murray Darling river here in Australia, cotton farmers are sucking it dry. In some remote settlements along the river people are literally dying from dehydration because there is no more water from the river.
@python357magnum1008 жыл бұрын
Very typical...unintended consequences of government policies.
@leighfoulkes72978 жыл бұрын
I would have thought that it would have been an obvious outcome. You divert multiple rivers away from a lake and expect it to stay?
@Nura4N7 жыл бұрын
Leigh Foulke water are taken for watering cotton and other thinks.
@700gsteak7 жыл бұрын
Nah they knew. They just didnt GAF.
@drawingboard827 жыл бұрын
This was warned about by many soviet scientists but it was done anyway. What adds insult to injury is that the irrigation canals they diverted the rivers into were not lined properly so half the water seeps into the ground before reaching the cotton fields. Also they could have used less water intensive cotton breeds.
@kopronko7 жыл бұрын
It's because of mohamedanians, so it's not the Russia that is damned, but the mohamedanians .
@potnudles8 жыл бұрын
I have no idea how I got to watching this
@Matttchew58 жыл бұрын
I got lost too. Maybe there is still hope.
@JeffTygart7 жыл бұрын
Yep me to this is sad they were a product of greed or maybe desperation is a better word from the soviet union.
@Matttchew57 жыл бұрын
***** I'd say both. It seems like there were people in charge who did not think throughly when the made decisions. I think the US currency system is the same way and greedy people are influencing desperate people to make poor decisions.
@JeffTygart7 жыл бұрын
I agree I have thought about that today watching a video of oil pipe lines that run through the great lakes and their potential danger. Though it is a Canadian it still holds the same idea.
@NoCumBacksiFunny7 жыл бұрын
Jeff Tygart pipelines pose almost no danger
@jaridkeen1237 жыл бұрын
Why not just reconnect the rivers?
@abcdef-gu6ut3 жыл бұрын
If only nations selfishness can be replaced
@jhunifiedwithlove97507 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most heartbreaking thing I have seen in my entire life... I hope the government and the people who did all these get their karma from Mother Nature...
@abcdef-gu6ut3 жыл бұрын
So true
@craigieplaysstuff Жыл бұрын
@xIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIx but now there rebuilding it 😭😢😭
@ComputerLearning09 жыл бұрын
Good ol' Soviet Union . . .
@RogerKeulen9 жыл бұрын
Mike Hawk The rest of the world doesn't look better.
@karlbrundage74729 жыл бұрын
Roger Keulen Please point out a comparable eco-disaster anywhere else.
@RogerKeulen9 жыл бұрын
Mike Barlow We have Wiki for that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drying_lakes
@roythomas11089 жыл бұрын
Mike Barlow We are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer to grow gas (ethanol) ya we are just as foolish when it comes to central planning.
@karlbrundage74729 жыл бұрын
Roger Keulen Yeah, that really makes your point. /sarc.
@Hiperforteca8 жыл бұрын
Thanks, USSR! The famous soviet technical thought again shows its results!
@paulallen81098 жыл бұрын
+Hyper What the hell does the USSR have to do with this? It collapsed over a quarter of century ago. What did these people living around the Aral lake do during all those time to counter this? They had the chance.
@Hiperforteca8 жыл бұрын
Paul Allen It was the USSR that started it all. It's all their fault.
@paulallen81098 жыл бұрын
No different then to the British Raj in India, the Irish land "reform" and a shit ton of "projects" and "business ventures" in the third world. Or do those not count?? I think you'll find that people in South America found it increasingly difficult to survive once mighty companies (supported by who?) had their way with them. Sweatshops in China and India (AND the USA when you compare their salaries to the rest of the developed world) make the USSR look like rank amateurs.
@Hiperforteca8 жыл бұрын
Paul Allen They didn't influence the Aral Sea case. You are changing the topic. And yes, they are different. USRR caused a gigantic lake to evaporate.
@bojidarmartinov59498 жыл бұрын
+Paul Allen You are very dumb.
@Bit019 жыл бұрын
Same thing that's been done to the central valley in California.
@Bit019 жыл бұрын
***** I like to post this to people that roll out the "it's a desert" trope in defense of that area having all water cut off from it. en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tulare_Lake
@TrevorLawrence6669 жыл бұрын
***** actually the colorado river was drained mainly because of large cities in the basin and imperial valley farming. the central valley fets its water from the rivers that drain the sierra navada and northern mountain ranges
@LastbutNotFirst7 жыл бұрын
nestle pumps the water for profit.
@styolites6167 жыл бұрын
@trevor Actually, the city of Los Angeles owns most of that.
@Jkstolz6 жыл бұрын
Bit 01 Arizona as well.... all for mining & making money. Selfish bastards
@wcemichael10 жыл бұрын
Great job Russia! We need cheap jeans a lot more than we need to eat!
@MOHCTPOXOD10 жыл бұрын
Does this mean that you DO admit that Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are parts of Russia or is it just pure ignorance? ;)
@wcemichael10 жыл бұрын
they did say Russia had a hand in diverting the river. Has nothing to do with what piece of land is owned by who.
@MOHCTPOXOD10 жыл бұрын
wcemichael There was no such thing as Russia at the time.
@wcemichael10 жыл бұрын
***** "During the early years of soviet rule..." That's what they said. Wikipedia: "...the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects" There was a Russia back in the 1940s when they helps us win WWII, and there is a Russia now, but somehow their wasn't a Russia in the 1960's?
@MOHCTPOXOD10 жыл бұрын
There was no Russia, there waw "Soviet Union" between 1917 and 1991.
@wakaka2waka9 жыл бұрын
Btw, guys. The Aral Sea is completely gone from the time this was uploaded. There is no longer any real water there.
@endifighterminecraft86164 жыл бұрын
It is small lake
@BlGGESTBROTHER4 жыл бұрын
It's definitely still there. It's just been greatly reduced in size and has split into several different bodies of water.
@user-ng4tf2oq7s4 жыл бұрын
False
@Science-ev1he4 жыл бұрын
It’s coming back now
@ManteIIo3 жыл бұрын
Back to 50% of what it used to be, the dam they built is working and water slowly coming back. A lot of ppl moving back to abandoned villages and learn how to fish once again.
@Hamassucks1936 жыл бұрын
Very similar to the Salton Sea in Southern California.
@StyleByKristina8 жыл бұрын
Watching this now for my geography class. Its really helpful and easy to follow.
@MatteoOneself6 жыл бұрын
I love randomly coming across super interesting videos to squander time
@TweenkPL6 жыл бұрын
0:00 "Once the fourth largest body of freshwater in the world (...)" It was never a frashwater lake, it had 10 g/L of salt (around a third of the concentration in seawater) before any water diversion started. 0:17 "But during the early years of Soviet rule (...)" The irrigation projects started in the 1960s, which was closer to the fall of Soviet Union in 1991 than to its establishment in 1922.
@philipbrodermann68676 жыл бұрын
3:21 'last DITCH effort' ... good one.
@HelicopterDown6 жыл бұрын
Dang, those ships in the desert sand remind of me of Mad Max, where the ocean dried up leaving vast uninhabitable canyons with old wind turbines and lighthouses and tankers.
@richardperkins84536 жыл бұрын
Now check out the salton sea in California.
@That1towncar6 жыл бұрын
I always am fascinated by these types of things! Its hard to imagine that those ships stranded in the middle of the desert were once floating in water there.
@tomjeffersonwasright22888 жыл бұрын
You don't have to travel so far to see this disaster. Just drive to the Salton Sea , less than 100 miles from Los Angeles, California, and all the same processes are going on.
@peter-zi9ds8 жыл бұрын
the CIA only want anti soviet propaganda
@xygomorphic448 жыл бұрын
The Salton sea is completely different from the Aral Sea. Before 1905 it didn't even exist. The sea was accidentally created when a flood control project on the Colorado river went badly and caused the river to flow into the sea area for about 2 years. It's been slowly evaporating ever since but the rains have stopped it from disappearing completely. Almost nothing lives in that lake because it's so salty and that water can't be used for irrigation. It's quite useless.
@tomjeffersonwasright22888 жыл бұрын
xygomorphic44 Educate yourself before you speak again. Both the Aral and the Salton have in common that their bottom contains some bad chemicals, that harm people who breathe the dust when the bottom dries up. If nothing else, the Salton Sea water keeps that dust wet, so it does not blow into San Diego. It has done so in the past, and that is why California is spending millions to restore the Salton Sea, to prevent major health problems in San Diego. There is also a lot of fish in the Salton. Tilapia are thriving there, as are other species. There is an annual die off that accounts for the dead fish on the shores. The Salton Sea is used for recreational boating and fishing, and the Sonny Bono National Wildlife Refuge is located on its shores, and the Sea is used by many migratory and local birds. Recreational fishermen also use the lake.
@ronalddavis7 жыл бұрын
Sonny bono wildlife refuge? hahahahaha
@mohamadhafidal-ahyar22536 жыл бұрын
Aral sea is closer to me than US actually hehe
@claycollins89737 жыл бұрын
I told some family friends about this and they literally told me, "take your tree hugging dogma brainwashing away from my children" and they were legitimately angry at me for talking about this and making up an absurd story in front of their kids... 2017 what a time to be alive
@misterree14433 жыл бұрын
Stupidity is the sign of the Times!
@samwilko99275 жыл бұрын
He seems very happy to laugh about other people's misfortunes.
@williamkelley76548 жыл бұрын
This looks like Kalifornia!
@volkerjanssen79058 жыл бұрын
+nuni121 No, I think he is talking about that little tourist spot on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Germany. ;-)
@clarencebrowniii47507 жыл бұрын
Not yet but soon, because they are planning to divert water from the Sacramento River delta.
@guerguistoyanov1376 жыл бұрын
Indrid Cold One of THE very best descriptions for PRC,aka People's Republic of California!😂👍 Well said!🍻
@EnriqueJay19986 жыл бұрын
Indrid Cold what are you talking about none of that is true? Are you sure you lived in Southern California?
@Charles_Anthony6 жыл бұрын
@@EnriqueJay1998 : He's not wrong. I live in Santa Ana.
@McLovin17766 жыл бұрын
4:45 "50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town."
@abruzz09 жыл бұрын
B-b-b-but in school all the teachers and smart, trendy liberal students tell me government is perfect and has never done anything wrong, ever, and we should trust them with allocation of all resources on the planet because they were born from special wombs that gave them super powers to dictate and decide what's best for everyone. The cognitive dissonance is killing me.
@fuzzlenuff9 жыл бұрын
+No Refunds Indeed!
@DiegoSantosU9 жыл бұрын
+No Refunds they are not "liberal" they are socialists.
@Tinfoilhelmets9 жыл бұрын
+No Refunds Liberal? Only one suffering cognitive dissonance is you. lol
@jimbobeire9 жыл бұрын
+No Refunds sounds legit, I'm sure they were so absolutist in their argument that you have no need to misrepresent them just to reinforce your own bias.
@MrSyntaxman8 жыл бұрын
+No Refunds Are you attempting to imply that private industry wouldn't pull the same shit given the chance? Fuck off with the partisan politics.
@SKIKR11 жыл бұрын
I am currently doing research on intercatchment transfer and the pros and cons your video has given great visual insight and has heightened any concerns considerably , great job.
@metalface85156 жыл бұрын
If uh, good ol Greg could stop laughing about eco disasters, that'd be pretty great
@havok47383 жыл бұрын
That last part at the end where we see how much has changed in a short time span like two months really saddens me. sad to see that its almost entirely destroyed now 9 years later :( 4/19/21
@daddygaming91915 жыл бұрын
Anyone 2019🤗🤗
@wD1VINE3 жыл бұрын
No, I'm 2020. Sorry, I'm a year late. ;w;
@thegreatmechanizedape82626 жыл бұрын
I love how quirky and fun this guy is and thinks this situation is. all smiles about this tragedy. these peoples misery is a fascinating novelty to him. jerk.
@wparo6 жыл бұрын
If this is a documentary, you didnt explain anything. You failed to mention what the government plan was, how it happened, what was the people's reaction, what they did to correct it, what will happen in the future. Just a 10 minutes long video of you speaking loudly and showing us a dessert
@user-ng4tf2oq7s4 жыл бұрын
Imagine complaining about a free KZbin documentary
@larsenmats4 жыл бұрын
The world should come together and make a channel from somewhere to fill the whole Aral Sea again, and not only the Northern part. I would happily donate money for something like this.
@esquad54068 жыл бұрын
Just a little Dynamite here and there can fix it.
@snakes62484 жыл бұрын
There's something about rusting ships in a desert that I find really disturbing. I can't explain it. I imagine standing next to one and then all of a sudden all of that water comes rushing back.
@fhangorn10 жыл бұрын
I wonder how high the salinity of the water is and will get after it get smaller and smaller in volume.
@tvoommen46887 жыл бұрын
A situation , most may have thought of as hypothetical, decades ago.....turns to be stark reality ! Amazing.
@ivangg420310 жыл бұрын
Was the Aral Sea and is the Aral Desert
@rasulbekman7 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir from Uzbekistan to bringing up this problem and sharing with world.
@martystevens83577 жыл бұрын
OMG!! Noah's Arc!! There it is!! I knew we'd find it one day!!
@yummyyum46267 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Some cool landscapes!
@Bill237999 жыл бұрын
wow What was the benefit to diverting the rivers? Just to irrigate cotton fields? Was it worth gaining cotton to the USSR balanced against the loss of fish for its people. I am sure the local ecology and economy was not even a factor in the equation at the time. I wonder if redirecting the flow of one river would help and maybe strike a balance. Do you know if they discovered any interesting ancient artifacts in what was once the sea floor of the Aral sea in that location?
@caloss26 жыл бұрын
I would be interesting if you were to return to see the water from the same vantage point now some 4 years later.
@ELCHINESEGUY8 жыл бұрын
This was uploaded in 2012 so it's totally gone at this point right?
@erwinrommel27468 жыл бұрын
Nope
@Wabaanimkii8 жыл бұрын
No, Last time I read up on the Aral Sea there was a re-divergence program with several canals to put water back in the sea. Water levels have risen since this was uploaded. Edit: North Aral sea under restoration efforts in Kazakhstan have risen the levels of the northern part of the Aral sea. Uzbekistan on the other hand is okay with losing the sea for hopes of finding oil and natural gas. The western part of the Aral sea is also being slowly restored but the southern and eastern portions are gone.
@ungertron9 жыл бұрын
Another great example of how a government planned economy does wonders for the ecology.
@ChildePC7 жыл бұрын
This would be a great movie spot for madd max
@LRS90510 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Someone who doesn´t know about this area´s history must wind up thinking "How the fuck did these boats got here?", lol
@ripmax3338 жыл бұрын
Very bizarre view to sea fishing boats in the middle of the desert, looks like a post apocalyptic scene from a Movie.
@leo97477 жыл бұрын
ripmax333 I’m sure that they probably filled a lot of those type of movies there
@vegansavagezone85409 жыл бұрын
Seems as here the damage is permanent, as any attempt to regrow the Aral sea might end disastrously.
@NurSunUSAKZ9 жыл бұрын
Dear Americans, please help us to get back our Aral Sea, our water, our life. Soviet Union killed all around here. We supplicate anyone who can help.
@kardkingz33809 жыл бұрын
I'm an American, but I can't make the minds if our government. If I could I would help as much as I could. I am so sorry for you guys.
@tramsramsey9 жыл бұрын
Никита Валетов I don't know what America could really do...
@orenoishadoukuurass9 жыл бұрын
Why don't you petition your government to tell Russia to unblock the rivers
@NurSunUSAKZ9 жыл бұрын
Anyway the agressor country will not do anythg
@jimbobeire9 жыл бұрын
+orenoishadoukuurass These rivers are not in Russia. This area _was_ part of the USSR, but since the break up of the USSR, it's a problem that crosses a few borders. The rivers come from the mountainous independent states in Central Asia, and flow into Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan where they are diverted through mainly unlined canals (which leak most of their water).
@kb17_1711 жыл бұрын
So sad :( This must never happen again anywhere in the world.
@deusexaethera6 жыл бұрын
6:20 - "All these ships used to work the fishing fleet. They would go out every day loaded-up with fishermen, and come back loaded-up with fish..." *Did the fishermen come home too, or did they use the fishermen as bait??* O_O
@Engineer102116 жыл бұрын
1 minute of information spread self-indulgently over 9 and a half minutes.
@billjenkins6879 жыл бұрын
Somebody should tell Putin NOT to redirect inflow to Aral Sea. That just might make him do the opposite.
@johnnolan87047 жыл бұрын
Bill Jenkins thats what i was thinking
@Adrian-pk1uh7 жыл бұрын
Bill Jenkins Differnt time lines
@thesayxx7 жыл бұрын
Kazakhstan is already diverting rivers to its part of Aral Sea and the water level is somewhat ok now, and there is enough fish in it that they started fishing again. Same thing with the western par i think. But i think nothing is being done about the biggest (southern) part of the sea that is located in Uzbekistan. I've read somewhere that they hope to drill for oil and natural gas in the now called Aralkum desert.
@MrJohannson6 жыл бұрын
+Dogman That was the Jews.
@algrayson89656 жыл бұрын
@@thesayxx- Once they have their oil platforms in place they just might let the sea bed flood again.
@jakegill75496 жыл бұрын
What would happen if they were to un-divert the rivers?
@StarlightDaydream9 жыл бұрын
I think that it is very sad this happened.
@paulgrimm78426 жыл бұрын
We’ve done the same thing to the Colorado River! It no longer flows to the ocean
@zakathzakath61846 жыл бұрын
Start planting industrial hemp over there. Hemp can used 💯 thousand differend way.
@nozimhonsadirhonov31905 жыл бұрын
Yes you right
@asylkz8 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your work sir. Very professional and with passion. Excellent research and delivery. I can tell that you really care about this disaster.
@agmjfcom5 жыл бұрын
The Murray/Darling is next.
@leljdam31895 жыл бұрын
the combine are really sucking up a lot of water
@incog99skd118 жыл бұрын
Mulholland and Los Angeles did the same thing to the beautiful Owens Lake region on the edge of the Eastern Sierras in California. This isn't just a Russian problem. Check out the disaster there.
@liberalbias44628 жыл бұрын
very nice false equivalence.
@doyledunlap57497 жыл бұрын
Liberal bias
@liberalbias44626 жыл бұрын
Liberal bias im back baby.
@markefreet15225 жыл бұрын
It's a government problem.
@jonathanpanmendoza72574 жыл бұрын
Aral Sea is a modern eco-disaster, its water now dried up bcoz of mismanagement and being the source of much irrigation around the area. Now is a great desert kand area...sad to see.
@Pilbsu8 жыл бұрын
You didn't even show us where the water was diverted to; various imbeciles will end up drawing spurious conclusions if you only show one side of the coin.
@MerlynAran8 жыл бұрын
+Pilbsu Becuase there is no other way of getting water for irrigation, such as from the lakes outlet rather then its Inlet? If you plan ahead you can Irrigate land without making a desert. That's kind of the point. The 'other side of the coin is short shortsightedness, given the loss to the environment and health problems they have now.
@JeffSilvermanSeattle8 жыл бұрын
The lake didn't have an outlet. It sat at the bottom of an enormous grabben, a depression in the Earth's crust, much like the Great Salt Lake in Utah is now. Also, the clip *did* explain where the water went: it was diverted to irrigation for farms. There was a short segment in the video that showed workers processing cotton. So the farmers made out like gangbusters. The decision makers knew, or should have known, that an effect of diverting the water would be that the Arial sea would dry up. It would be interesting to know why they decided to favor the farmers over the fishermen? Furthermore, once it became obvious that the result of diverting the water was the destruction of the ecosystem, why didn't they decide to stop diverting the water? Finally, a lot of people on this thread are using this story as a political football between the left and the right in our American political discourse. Advocates on both sides are missing the point. The point is that in order to rule wisely, regardless of whether you have a centralized or decentralized political system, you must have an awareness of "best science". In the current election cycle, the only candidate with any understanding of "best science" was Dr. Ben Carson, and 1) he didn't display much understanding of science, despite being a physician and 2) in never get much of a constituency.
@richardoverton65217 жыл бұрын
Ben Carson is a fundamentalist Christian that believes in Creationism. Hardly "best science". He must have passed his science classes by the "Grace of God".
@cianakril6 жыл бұрын
Ain't you mixing something? Azerbaijan? It is related to Aral sea as much as Greece is related to the sea of Japan.
@empiregeof6 жыл бұрын
marksandparks1 You're negative thinking is wrong btw They built a dam and are redirecting the water into the Aral sea kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppyXp2Orqpqlobs Its already filling up again, and the water that remained still had enough fish and bio diversity to make the whole sea a basket of life again. It doesnt take decades, it takes a handfull of commited people and a bit of wealth
@kellerr1310 жыл бұрын
This could be a treasure trove of Zoology, Botany, Palentology, Ecology, and Climatology. I hope many universities around the world are taking advantage to examine this.
@paulspydar10 жыл бұрын
Is it not possible to reverse the damage ?
@jonathanpressman198610 жыл бұрын
Yes, if they routed the rivers again.
@Wolfstanus10 жыл бұрын
That would require money and a brain.
@reecemartin45310 жыл бұрын
it is in theory, but the damaged caused by the lack of water, would take 100s of years to be fixed,
@jonpatkin10 жыл бұрын
They have made attempts to re-establish the natural order, but due to the extreme shrinkage in size of the Aral Sea, the rivers can no longer reach it to replenish it. As it stands now, it is irreversible.
@Nightmare_Texas10 жыл бұрын
The aral sea can be saved but it is up to the governments of the 5 central asian stan countries to come together for once and all work together. This has not happened. The source of the rivers come from both afghanistan and tajikistan and flow through uzbekistan kyrgystan and into kazakhstan uzbek border. They have saved the norh aral sea and damned it off but the south the biggest part is doomed.
@Trippy_viness3 жыл бұрын
I hate school i have to watch this like eight times to answer ESSAY QUESTIONS!!! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@rondill84297 жыл бұрын
Isn't that the ( SS Minnow ) Gilligan's Island ??
@Mark-yn4vl8 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia, Water drains YOU!
@RolandBizjets11 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. You just let me know what happened there.
@lettymares16 жыл бұрын
Not to mention the south end of the Colorado River. It's also a dusty and arid path now; but up north, the river is converted into resorts, dams and irrigation systems. Hopefully some day we can see this river full of life for the ecosystem all the way to the sea of Cortez again..
@Tanneritefilledfido9 жыл бұрын
why not reverse it and atleast feed it again with one of the two rivers that were diverted
@PugilistCactus6 жыл бұрын
Yeah you'd think considering the potential for transportation they'd reflood it and turn it into a canal.' I wouldn't be shocked if Russia came in again and said "we don't need this anymore." in the next decade or so honestly.
@Sargebri8 жыл бұрын
Sounds just like what's going on down by the Salton Sea area. It is drying up and the dust and sulfur in the air are causing all sorts of health problems.
@TomLaios8 жыл бұрын
Why don't they undivert the fucking rivers?
@TomLaios7 жыл бұрын
Once again in English mate?
@jynxjynx30687 жыл бұрын
A shame, and yet, if they decided to undo the river re-routing, there would be some people complaining that some desert species would be harmed by the flooding of the Aral Sea basin.
@kineticdeath8 жыл бұрын
hmm cotton or fish, do we need more brand name tshirts or food? oh well /sigh
@C-M-E11 жыл бұрын
A surreal beauty at a steep cost. Coexisting duality
@slygi410 жыл бұрын
So this is what happens when all the power is with a central government. Yea! Socialism, Yea Communism.
@kosiak1085110 жыл бұрын
Really? Sounds like you've never heard any stories about capitalists who are ready to break any law (especially enviromental law) in pursuit for profits. Capitalism and overproduction caused by it is the root of most enviromental disasters!
@lima33ful10 жыл бұрын
kosiak10851 Really? Where is the Capitalist version of the Aral sea?
@kosiak1085110 жыл бұрын
lima33ful gulf of mexico
@andronom55710 жыл бұрын
rodeo o barely.
@BMcbugger10 жыл бұрын
Andro Nom LMAO! Did you just say the Gulf of Mexico is barely still there? Please, oh please, qualify that statement. I'd love to hear this one.
@Matttchew58 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the shots of this place.
@padmcd8 жыл бұрын
Coming to Lake Michigan if the Democrats get their way!
@breaking9636 жыл бұрын
Patrick McDermott Funny you say that when most Republicans don't give two shits about the environment.
@MaximGhost6 жыл бұрын
We're not hearing both sides of the story here. The Soviet government wasn't stupid. They wouldn't have done this unless the benefits outweighed the costs. If they had not, then they would have reversed the course long ago.
@EnlightenTogether10 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Water disasters are fascinating. I am covering this video in the Enlighten Together broadcast tonight.
@RomanTrollanski6 жыл бұрын
Ivan doesn't care about some salty water while vodka keeps him sober.
@fristanlobo12046 жыл бұрын
The fact is somewhere even Chemical weapons were also tested in Aral sea during the USSR . Was that a reason too for such a big disaster ?
@whitetiger20489 жыл бұрын
the desert with all of those rusted ships and scrap in the sand is very steampunk and cool but kinda sad for what used to be a massive lake :P
@randyearles16346 жыл бұрын
U.S. did something similar that helped create the great dustbowl. we had to change how we did alot of things. Aral Sea can be restored if the will was there.
@harryandruschak28437 жыл бұрын
"Always look on the Brightside of live!" Nobody is blaming this on global warming/climate change :)
@katg218710 жыл бұрын
This video is cut short, George Kourounis continues to explain how there was an island in the Aral Sea.. And on this island the Soviets were doing Chemical and Biological experiments, using all kinds of things including Small Pox, Anthrax and other bad things. Braking international treaties. Then once the water was gone and the island was no longer isolated by water it was abandoned..
@Minimeister3176 жыл бұрын
Would love some geology core samples from that place
@poopipeboy30336 жыл бұрын
5:05 It's like the Mad Max video game scenery in real life.
@allmightyjamestown10 жыл бұрын
this is amazing!
@Gains_Monsoon9 жыл бұрын
Very sad thing to see happen to that area. Hopefully that doesn't happen to the Great Lakes someday.
@TheOtherOne12211 жыл бұрын
to answer everyones questions yes the rivers to the aral sea can be rediverted. but Uzbekistan which owns the 2 rivers and the southern half of the aral sea, does not want to because they're still using the rivers for cotton . And Uzbekistan has found oil in the aral sea so rediverting the rivers would flood their precious oil fields. lastly Kazakhstan which owns the northern half of the aral sea is trying to fix the aral sea but they dont have much options for they have neither of the rivers
@flavio27277 жыл бұрын
This video is five years old. Good news now (2017)! The Khazakhstan dam is making the return of the water and the fishes.
@Commentator5417 жыл бұрын
OMG IT'S REAL! All hail the dam!
@jordenjpg6 жыл бұрын
The same thing is happening to the Great Salt Lake, largest saltwater body in the Western Hemisphere. Yet due to the growing population of Utah, less water makes it to the lake.
@TheOtherOne12211 жыл бұрын
also uzbekistan has found oil in the aral sea so they don't want to flood their precious oil fields. Kazakhstan which owns the north aral sea is doing everything they can to repair the aral sea however though they dont have much options.
@skipdow37 жыл бұрын
An interesting thing I happened to notice, was that everyone that was shown carrying sticks, was carrying dead sticks, as if that's all that's there.
@mmirlas28207 жыл бұрын
I swear, I once saw a time lapse picture of this place as an argument for climate change.
@dafty41836 жыл бұрын
50,000 people used to live here... now it's a ghost town.
@LeviForWaifu6 жыл бұрын
A boat in the middle of the desert. That is surreal.
@matt80_s6 жыл бұрын
Just a thought.... couldn't the government undo the diverted rivers and have them flown back in the sea?