This had been requested of me for a while. Enjoy!

@LightoZtriker

2 жыл бұрын

Can you do history of Ireland 1750 - 2022

@FunkierTitan

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Definitely

@armenianmapper3168

2 жыл бұрын

You can do another video about a lake that is nearly disappeared. Urmia lake , in northern Iran. Was a great lake, part of it was controlled by Armenia and Persia. By so.e mistakes from Iran goverment , the lake started vaporize in years after 1970. The lake now is near to disappear .

@gabrielesimion3074

2 жыл бұрын

can i uggest to put also the medium water height for every year in the video?

@jonathancurran5366

2 жыл бұрын

You should do one for the Dead Sea.

The stuff that makes both geography and history buffs cry alike

@xx-xk9uz

2 жыл бұрын

only if you are an antisocial specimen. the rest of us knows that uzbekistan is a dirt fkin poor place with almost no opportunities, and that subsistence fishery is nothing compared to industrial cash cropping for its national social economy

@samuzamu

2 жыл бұрын

And environmentalists

@henereye

2 жыл бұрын

And Kazakhs and Uzbeks

@alexstorm2749

2 жыл бұрын

There’s an old Russian music video filmed in the middle of the dried out Aral Sea with the rusty abandoned ships all around. Copy and paste Юлия Савичева - Корабли or Yulia Savicheva - Ships. It’s really cool.

@johnbarkl1700

Жыл бұрын

Im both. I can't stop

This topic has always interested me. From how the aral sea was the 4th largest lake on the planet. To A Skeleton Of The Lake's Former Self.

@LightoZtriker

2 жыл бұрын

And we know who to blame! (The Soviets)

@underwher

2 жыл бұрын

@@LightoZtriker ok

@stephmod7434

2 жыл бұрын

Same! :'(

@LightoZtriker

2 жыл бұрын

@@underwher didn't expect to see you. What did you think of my new vid

@underwher

2 жыл бұрын

@@LightoZtriker 1- I watch him from 5 years 2-super fantastic ultra pro max

The city of Aralsk used to be a port town, now it is 16 kilometers away from the shoreline...

@Selmarya

2 жыл бұрын

There are plans to build a canal up to about 2 kilometers east of aralsk however

@Neversa

2 жыл бұрын

It was 30 km from the water, water levels rose after 2006.

@RRW359

2 жыл бұрын

If you can call that a shoreline.

@francescorossi2368

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but even though the dam was designed and built to hold back water from the Syr Darya, there is no certainty that the water will reach the port city of Aralsk. It is true that since it was built in 2005, there has been a rapid rise in the water level until around 2011. However, if you compare satellite photos of the North Aral from 2011 with those from 2021, you will notice that more whether or not the level has remained unchanged.

@francescorossi2368

2 жыл бұрын

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34853615/#&gid=article-figures&pid=fig-7-uid-6 This is a photo which explains how to bring the water until the Aralsk port.

Part of the reason why the Aral Sea has continued to decline so dramatically is because the irrigation diversion that caused it to happen in the first place has never been reversed. The Syr Darya (north) and Amu Darya (south) rivers are heavily dammed and diverted upstream to use for things like cotton crops, to the point where the Amu Darya doesn't even reach the lake anymore. That, coupled with the Soviet Union collapsing and kleptocracy running rampant in both newly former countries, and the political will to fix the issue just hasn't materialized. Just as an example, a second dam in the north was supposed to have been built to increase the water level there, but that still hasn't happened despite it being announced over a decade ago. Hypothetically, the lake could come back as soon as it vanished if the irrigation infrastructure was better managed, and there have been political changes in both countries in the last couple of years that could finally see some improvements, but even in the best case scenario, we're talking decades.

@LightoZtriker

2 жыл бұрын

True

@MK-rw1on

2 жыл бұрын

my dream is that when humanity unites in peace and freedom we can recreate the lake and then build the future world capital on its shores, to show that we have learnt from our mistakes and made a promise to never do it again.

@supereero9

2 жыл бұрын

​@@MK-rw1on I'll be stealing that idea for my upcoming sci-fi novel

@MK-rw1on

2 жыл бұрын

@@supereero9 im just kidding, take it hahahaha i can test-read if you want to, i love doin that

@777MasterHero

2 жыл бұрын

@@MK-rw1on One other thing to keep in mind is that the exposed lakebed is heavily polluted with decades worth of pesticide runoff to the point where a large portion of Uzbekistan's population has respiratory health problems. That, and the Soviets apparently used the island (now *not* an island due to the water level drop) as a bioweapons testing facility / anthrax dump. The government is actually trying to plant a bush forest there to stop the toxic dust from blowing across the landscape anymore.

Kazakhstan has made steady progress since 2006 since they've actually put forth a bit of effort into preserving the Aral Sea. Uzbekistan is the problem since they have completely abandoned their half of the Sea causing it to almost completely shrivel up. The only time Uzbekistan's portion even partially fills up anymore is when Kazakhstan's half "overflows" and when there is significant snowfall. The only way to really fix this is to use alternative cotton species that use less water and to improve the quality of irrigation canals, but there isn't enough political will in Uzbekistan to do either.

@nickj6930

2 жыл бұрын

Now I know why Borat hated Uzbekistan so much

@user-ne6tq6vu8y

2 жыл бұрын

Or Kazakhstan can buy rest of Aral sea.

@arceuspistola

2 жыл бұрын

lets invade uzbekistan

@user-cg7sd3wv3y

2 жыл бұрын

​​@@user-ne6tq6vu8y не сможет купить это наша территория! сейчас там автогонки устраиваем

@AsLostAsAlice

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ne6tq6vu8y the rovers are the most important part for regrowing the see, not the sea itself sadly.

A lesson can be learned from this. When an ecosystem dies, so does the human population that depends on it. Today the towns around the Aral Sea are largely ghost towns. The people who do live there have shortened life expectancy thanks to wind blown dust and toxins coming off the dried up, polluted former seabed.

@vyr1010

2 жыл бұрын

The lesson is to do the opposite of everything done in the soviet union

@kjj26k

2 жыл бұрын

But that's ok, 'cause those people don't matter. Just like with Three Gorges Dam or pipelines through Native territory.

@beanboi9156

2 жыл бұрын

@@vyr1010 like lose ww2?

@Trynt33

2 жыл бұрын

@@beanboi9156 Except that part, scratch that part. Since even southern Italy technically won WW2

@magusscythian

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trynt33 cringe

Never thought I'd feel so emotionally invested in a sea.

My grandfather visited Aral sea as a kid in early 1960's, traveling on a steamboat from Aral in the north to Muynaq in the south. It was still a huge freshwater lake, the fish was plentiful. When he once again visited it in 1994, there was water in 10 km from where it was before, it was salty, fish were dying and towns dependent on fishing were empty and depopulated.

Soviet critics of the Aral sea called it a "Useless Evaporator" and its water should be diverted to other uses. Ironicly the fast evaporation of the sea proved them correct...

@Sp00nexe

2 жыл бұрын

There was significant opposition in the Soviet Union to it's construction as well however. Many members on Gosplan committees pointed out that the immense economic investment required for the irrigation, paired with the economic losses from the disappearance of the Aral Sea, was a complete waste of money. The project was rightly seen as uneconomical, and scientific newspapers and journals published articles against it's creation. However ultimately, the Uzbek leadership wielded a significant degree of influence due to the highly desirable cotton crop for the USSR, and the favor they held with some in upper echelons due to their supposed model as an ideal SSR. There's a whole lot more to this - read up about Rashidov and the Great Cotton Scandal. It was one of the biggest political scandals of the USSR, as it turned out the Uzbeks were so wildly corrupt and pulling off such a wild scam on Moscow, that the aral sea was ultimately lost for nothing.

I, as a Kazakh, feel great sadness from the fact that this lake began to dry up even before my birth and now a desert has appeared in its place. And the irony is that initially the riverbed that filled the Aral Sea was directed and used for cotton production, and now we have closed all silk enterprises (factories) in the country and buy silk clothes from Turkey and Malaysia

I was a geography nerd as a kid, so I would look at maps and I knew, from West to East: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea. Right? Then I was looking at a map ten years ago and it was just gone. I spent a few weeks scrambling to find out what happened. Weirdest thing to me was that a major map feature was wiped but nobody seemed to notice or care. Sometimes I feel crazy for remembering that it existed at all

Reading how the soviets talked of the Aral Sea as something that must be destroyed is disgusting.

I wanna cry after seeing this

@YTA51

2 жыл бұрын

If we all cry toghether we could refill it.

@LightoZtriker

2 жыл бұрын

@@YTA51 100000 IQ Plan

@underwher

2 жыл бұрын

@@LightoZtriker infinite iq plan

@HeadsetHatGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@YTA51 The only problem is that it would become the second dead sea because of the salt 💀

I hope one day when Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan develop enough, they can restore the sea. Unfortunately considering the regimes there, that might no be in our lifetimes.

@danielkarlsson8252

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think Uzbekistan will be interested, since it would divert the river from their cotton production to filling up the lake

@bennelong8451

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the second Soviet Union will

@lithunoisan

2 жыл бұрын

Hasn’t the part of the Aral Sea owned by Kazakhstan grown? The Sea was vital for many people in the area, any countries that may want to invest there (such as China because they like to throw money around and make countries indebted to them) would almost certainly help to restore the lake, the increase in economic activity from its restoration would be amazing for investors, it helps there are efforts to restore it already, though I don’t know how well Uzbekistan’s plans to restore it are going.

@baneofbanes

2 жыл бұрын

@@bennelong8451 lol Yah Kazakhstan has broken its “buddy buddy” relationship with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. I don’t see any second Soviet Union coming about. Not to mention it was the USSR that ruined the lake in the first place.

@Alex_1400

2 жыл бұрын

@@baneofbanes >broken it’s relationship Not even remotely true

Pretty scary how humans can destroy natural things like this. Once the 4th largest lake, now just a bunch of desert with some shallow bits of water here and there in it. Granted destroying the lake wasn't intentional, but it's still man-made nonetheless.

@solsunman383

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly it was intentional. The Soviets called it 'nature's mistake' or something equivalent. The plan all along was to destroy it.

@icecoldpolitics8890

2 жыл бұрын

The sea wouldn’t have dried up like it did if it wasn’t for the horrible quality of the canals and damns. The water waste alone is what killed the south Aral Sea and the only reason the north has began to recover though very slowly is due to the fact that Kazakhstan created a more efficient system to rebuild part of it. The sad part is that if the damns and canals were built better and there were stricter rules on water waste the sea would still likely have lived even in a reduced form.

@Jiji-the-cat5425

2 жыл бұрын

@@solsunman383 I did a bit of research. The scientists did call it natures mistake and knew the lake was screwed. The dams and canals were part of the 5-year-plans. The scientists in the Soviet Union knew the Lake would be destroyed, but nobody dared in those days speak out against the government. Apparently in the late 1960's, there was a plan called the Northern River Reversal, which was to divert Arctic rivers to the southern parts of the USSR, and one of the plans was to save the Aral Sea. But the project was cancelled in 1986.

@konbkob4156

2 жыл бұрын

@@solsunman383 Although it's hard to believe that Uzbekistan would continue it, and one wonders why it got so bad far after 1991

@TheManinBlack9054

2 жыл бұрын

@@solsunman383 any authortiative source on that?

Aral sea in Uzbekistan: almost gone Aral sea in Kazakhstan: 85% its original volume

If anyone is reading the comments and wants to have a bad history migrane; here you go. A few weeks ago at my school i found a map of central asia for 6th grade notes lying on the floor. I picked it up and read it and to my shock, and i kid you not, they said that “afghanistan was colonised by the french until they gained their independence in 1966”. I was just in total shock and disbelief… Thank you for the minutely history horror story

1) Lay down 2) Try not to cry 3) Cry a lot

Footage of the last oceans holding off the Dutch in the great water wars. Circa 2268 colourised then decolourised and recolourised again

@HeadsetHatGuy

2 жыл бұрын

💀

Look what they did to my boy :(

I really like how different this is, being a natural body and not borders. A wonderful, and sad, change of pace

I was interested into the drying of the Aral Sea. So sad. This is the best representation of it. Thank you Tigerstar!

@freedomordeath89

2 жыл бұрын

no satellite images before 1950s

I do not understand why the authorities of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan did not try to stop the drying of the Aral Sea.

@user-uf2df6zf5w

2 жыл бұрын

Why should they?

@katitobyt

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because it's beyond what they can do.

@EmperorTigerstar

2 жыл бұрын

Well, under the Soviet Union they simply couldn't, as that's not what the Soviets wanted. The Soviets wanted higher cotton exports and used the draining Aral Sea to irrigate that. Afterwards they sort of did, but it was mostly too late.

@nemzecski

2 жыл бұрын

they were young nations without the capital to really do anything

@jonathancurran5366

2 жыл бұрын

Kazakhstan has taken some remedial measures, however Cotton is crucial to Uzbekistan's economy the entire population is mobilised for it's harvest. Visualpolitik En has a good video on this. There is a reason why Cotton is referred to as "White Gold".

I wonder how life would've been like around the place if the aral sea remained completely intact

It's legitimately sad to see the Aral Sea dry up like this ;( . Especially since it was due to incompetence that could have easily been avoided

i liked the sped up replay of the whole thing at the end, it would be great to see it in future videos too!

@kenos911

2 жыл бұрын

Omg I saw you on my KZread incognito tab literally 4 months ago hi sicksasix renowned minecraft

@Sicksasix

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenos911 HELLO (assumed) FELLOW GEOGRAPHY NERD

This could be the Great Salt Lake in give or take 30 years...

@niggacockball7995

2 жыл бұрын

Lake mead also not looking good with its water levels

Great video! I'm looking forward to similar ones about the Dead Sea, and Lake Chad.

I like that this animation moves more than your others.

A big big work, thank you for this map

a cautionary tale... 'when you're so focussed on if you can do it that you forget to ask yourself if you should do it'

one of the saddest videos on this channel. idk why but I cried a little watching this

This is probably the most depressing map animation to watch

I wonder what fish, microorganisms, and anomals went extinct because of this

@solarsailor1534

2 жыл бұрын

The Syr Darya sturgeon and the Aral trout are probably now extinct because of this.

That super fast time lapse at the end is perfect!

I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was THIS bad. Hell, the Aral Sea has only about 10% of its former surface area, if at all, and probably a much smaller fraction of its former volume

Definitely the best version of this

It would've been a lot more interesting to go farther back in time.

@kurtwhiteley481

2 жыл бұрын

there wouldn't be much accurate details on its size, and climate change/other causes for the Aral Seas current decline weren't in place, so the sea would have been more or less the same size as it was in the first image

@Argacyan

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtwhiteley481 Yo, this is part of my field of science. You got some info on it which would be cool to illustrate & I got no idea how you'd get the impression this sea looked the same a thousand or two thousand years ago.

@kurtwhiteley481

2 жыл бұрын

@@Argacyan I didn't say for thousands of years 👀 but for a hundred or so, yes. and prior to the mid 1800s, it would be harder to find accurate information on it. not saying it can't be done, just saying that would be a job for professionals.

If the Soviets and the Iranians have decided to drain the Caspian Sea instead of the Aral Sea, millions around the region would’ve starved, this would’ve proved disastrous for both the former Soviet Union and Iran. It is possible that in an alternate timeline, both countries could’ve destroyed the world’s largest lake to have accidentally caused a region-wide famine that is even worse than the worst recorded famine in history: the Great Chinese Famine. The famine would’ve been so horrible, Iran may have fallen into a state of civil war, turmoil and anarchy, turning the country into a second Afghanistan.

@aeniechka

2 жыл бұрын

It is impossible to drain the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea is supplied by small rivers, and the Caspian has the Volga

i am honestly very sad to see it all dried up like this. thanks for the video though

I can't wait for the nemesis that says "only 2000s kids will get this" and it's just a picture of the Aral Sea

Just in a few years, it turned from a maritime border, to a land border.

There is also the Lake of Urumia in Iran that's been going through the same thing. You could look at it if you wanted.

Never thought I'd be so sad over the drying up of a lake

So nice he showed it twice!

Amazing video, thanks a lot! Could you hint the source for mapping?

Clean drinkable water to desert. Uzbekistan's climate was like western European climate. Now very dry and small grasses began to dissappear

@user-vy2ly2et8o

Жыл бұрын

Климат Узбекистана совершенно не похож на климат Западной Европы. И он никогда не был похожим на климат Западной Европы. В Узбекистане пустынный континентальный климат. А на юге Узбекистана субтропический климат. Лето в Узбекистане гораздо жарче чем в любом городе Западной Европы. За исключением городов Южной Испании. В июле средняя дневная температура в Ташкенте плюс 36 градусов. В то время как в Лондоне средняя дневная температура в июле - плюс 22 градуса. Это намного холоднее чем в Ташкенте. В Париже средняя дневная температура июля составляет 25 градусов. Что также гораздо ниже чем в Ташкенте. Но Ташкент это далеко не самое жаркое место в Узбекистане. В Бухаре средняя дневная температура июля - плюс 38 градусов по Цельсию. А в Термезе - плюс 40 градусов. Также в Узбекистане гораздо суше и солнечнее чем в Западной Европе.

It’s enough to make a grown man cry

It's pretty terrifying how humans can just make an entire sea stop existing.

Very related video that sadly still doesn't exist (hint, hint): Northern River Reversal: what would have happened. If that crazy awesome idea of re-directing a couple of Siberian rivers to the Aral Sea (suggest well before the Aral started shrinking!) had actually been implemented - what would the consequences have been? Would the Aral Sea have filled to the point that it started having an out-flow river to the Caspian? How much more rain would Central Asia start getting?

we can see how Barsakelmes island right in the middle of the sea at the beginning starts to slowly split the lake in two and then become a peninsula. tragedy for both countries.

I will miss the Aral sea :( I wish it can come back

I didn't even realised how bad this skrinkage was even after watching a video by Reallifelore on this

Bring back the sea!

what about building a dam from a river on caspian sea to aral??

'Its just a sea? Why are you crying?" The sea:

it's like looking at the earth billions of years without water 😢

I'm from Uzbekistan Also I'm sad now

@siyacer

7 ай бұрын

soviet union sucks

How is it that the western lobe of the sea survives? Deeper water? And if I were to go the where the water actually is, has the water also changed?

This is just haunting.

Do Great Salt Lake next!

To put into prospective on how quickly the aral dried up im going to jot down some dates in 1961 my grandad was born and the sea was almost full then in 1983 when my dad was born the sea had shrunk by over 35% then in 2005 when I was born the sea had reduced by over 65% (these are rough calculations I’m not good with percentages so correct me if I’m wrong) so within the span of just 43 years the sea had greatly reduced in size then to add to that when my sister was born in 2015 the eastern lobe was gone and the sea had shrunk by over 70% that’s terrifying to think about within 54 years the sea was almost gone and is still evaporating to this day hopefully we can get the sea back to a stable level again but the sea as a whole will never recover

Holy Heck that's a fast shrinking sea!

This makes me really sad… somebody please fix this. Nature wasn’t meant to be destroyed

There’s an old Russian music video filmed in the middle of the dried out Aral Sea with the rusty abandoned ships all around. Copy and paste Юлия Савичева - Корабли or Yulia Savicheva - Ships. It’s really cool.

I remember seeing a map of the sea that said “was” on the page describing it and the “try not to cry” meme under it. Very sad indeed. Damn Soviets!

The Aral Sea was the size of Ireland.

Probably the single biggest manmade change to the planet's surface

Cotton plants: Big sip* Aral sea: dead*

BadlandsChugs posting his Ws

You should make about urmia lake too.

That's sad

I legit was just saying how I would love if this was a thing.

Probably the biggest geographical change in our life

@rageaholicc

10 ай бұрын

I hope you mean within our lifetime

Gray Vid Emperor

this beautifule and great sea turned into a few lakes that is really a sad story

@ulugbekbahrom

2 жыл бұрын

It was technically a lake, but called sea because of size (maybe?).

@arnarchisticantarktikaferd5756

2 жыл бұрын

@@ulugbekbahrom yes i know

Do one on the Urmia Lake

😢

This is sad Its happening for caspian sea too😔

Do the Walton sea or similar bodies of water that drying up

Just wanted to ask for some reason, I'd your name based off of the Warriors character 'Tigerstar,' more known as Tigerclaw to the Fandom of Warriors?

This is the saddest video on youtube currently

Why is a sea drying up making me cry

@mrbyzantine0528

2 жыл бұрын

Shoddy irrigational pipes and top-down authoritarian economics.

imagine looking it up in the 22nd century amid another ongoing Water War

LMFAO I WAS LOOKING INTO THIS YESTERDAY

The visible effects of the man-made ecological disaster in the Aral Sea just make me want to cry

Ah yes, the Aral war, when the glorious Land Nation finally decisively won the war against the Aral Nation and almost captured it

the conquest of the Aral kingdom by the Dirt empire.

@mrbyzantine0528

2 жыл бұрын

It's sand. Toxic sand.

@multilangcoder8723

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually sand but lol

Wow, the eastern half dried up all the way back in ‘14 already?

Lake Urmia in Iran is starting to suffer a similar fate as well

This is honestly incredibly sad.

Poor aral sea :(

this is may not be the dead sea but its sure is dying

im not crying! youre crying!

It's honestly very sad...

Reminds me of Lake Chad too

Will it ever be back?

@mrbyzantine0528

2 жыл бұрын

Efficiency-oriented infrastructure updates and less-thirsty cotton crop can go a long way to ameliorating this problem. Unfortunately, corrupt governments stand in the way.

I GOT DEPRESSION NOW

This sea is gone before 2050 😢