I knew about the Aral Sea disaster, but never heard of the child slavery issue. Thank you for the education.

@baldurelitraustason662

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly same, I had no idea they still practice what is effectively slavery there

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

Of course! Glad you enjoyed!

@decem_sagittae

2 жыл бұрын

Shows how much you know about communism. That happened everywhere in the Communist world not just the USSR and it continued until the regimes collapsed - 89-92

@ayszhang

2 жыл бұрын

@Martin Parvanov It is. They are taking advantage of children. My colleagues from Uzbekistan told me first hand experience. Just because it's state-sponsored doesn't mean it's not slavery!

@zdenkamankova5110

2 жыл бұрын

Staying was a devil!

Reminds me about how California was once home to the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, but it eventually disappeared due to a variety of factors, agriculture being one of them. Maybe this state would be less perpetually on fire if the lake was still there.

@williammerkel1410

2 жыл бұрын

If you are referring to the Salton Sea, although it has existed at various points in the past naturally, its current iteration is the result of a broken canal from the Colorado River.

@cosmosyn2514

2 жыл бұрын

@@williammerkel1410 No, Tulare Lake.

@cosmosyn2514

2 жыл бұрын

@LTNetjak “due to a **variety** of factors agriculture being **one** of them” Still don’t mind adding of the extra context, just read over comments more. Also I find it hilarious people in the goddamn MOJAVE DESERT are complaining about rainfall.

@mr.x2567

2 жыл бұрын

Let the state burn, everyone there deserves to be burnt alive anyway

@crayonburry

2 жыл бұрын

@@cosmosyn2514 too much water is just as deadly as not enough. It is quite common for desertified regions to flood, takes Nile, then indus, and the Mesopotamia regions, just like the Colorado all have flood issues.

I first found out about the Aral sea by playing a Total War video game, I was so shocked to see another huge lake past the Caspian further east. After doing some research, I found out that the good old soviets killed it.

@kendsplaining

2 жыл бұрын

i found out while playing ck2 ! the aral sea is very important in that game if you play as one of the steppe nomads .

@jout738

2 жыл бұрын

I found about this lake like two years ago, when watched enough geograpical videos and then spotted google satelate images in certain videos about this lake in diffrent years and then I get to hear that it had something to do with soviet and their nuclear stuff, while it actually got to do with soviets just directing the river in diffrent direction, that made that sea to dry up.

@wongijen9167

2 жыл бұрын

Damn Soviets

@user-fv1uf9bf4r

2 жыл бұрын

@@wongijen9167 who did not foresee that chaos would come in the future. Which may not have just changed the channels? Maybe they wanted to provide a good life not for fishermen, but for farmers? Maybe the world is not so one-dimensional.

@2hotflavored666

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-fv1uf9bf4r Just like with the Nazis. The Soviets were one dimensional bad guys. Not surprising you defend the 2nd worst communist regime in the world, considering you're a Russian.

Bro, I live there. Exploiting children is illegal, although it once was a common practice in early 00s. When I was a kid I voulanterely traveled with my mom to harvest, but it was only one day. Usually every government worker must to go on plantation somewhere between september-october to harvest, unless you can bribe your way out. Surprisingly enough, people in Tashkent (the capital) have little to no idea that this practice even exist in other regions.

@archer_wsk1408

2 жыл бұрын

I thought KZread was banned in 🇺🇿 is it?

@jamesmorris9388

2 жыл бұрын

U ain’t live there

@jonathanwilliams1065

2 жыл бұрын

@@archer_wsk1408 why would Uzbekistan ban it? They aren’t commies or Islamists

@yerma6847

2 жыл бұрын

Mate that's child slavery bro free labour with no basic health care or payment and it being a government mandatory is slavery if u don't get paid

@ogg5

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanwilliams1065 islamists 💀what language u speaking bro

It's good to see that Kazakhstan is at least trying to save the Aral Sea.

@PaperIsMe

5 ай бұрын

As a resident living in Uzbekistan, especially near the sea, i do confirm uzbekistan is taking no action, just because we are so called "sovereign" republic named Karakalpakstan

@francescosaffioti1697

3 ай бұрын

Hello friend, I am Italian, in the last period I have been informing myself about the situation in the Aral Sea, this disaster is almost unknown in Western Europe and in my small way I am trying to inform people about this situation. I know that in addition to the terrible natural disaster, the local population is also suffering because of the sand and toxic salt carried by the wind. I know that many people, including very young people, are falling ill with cancer and respiratory diseases. It is really terrible. I also recently discovered the existence of the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan and wondered if the Uzbek government is deliberately neglecting that territory. In any case, if you have any information on the situation, I would love to hear the opinion of a local resident. I apologise for the long comment. ​@@PaperIsMe

How are we supposed to terraform Mars, if we can't even "terraform" a small patch on the Earth without creating an inhabitable wasteland?

@sectorgovernor

2 жыл бұрын

True

@gabor6259

Жыл бұрын

You can't compare the two. In case of the Aral sea the goal wasn't "terraforming".

@chandy3859

Жыл бұрын

Look at Netherlands

@pistonburner6448

2 ай бұрын

"We" can, socialists can't.

It is absurd how high quality the content on Channel is.

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the kind words! Thank you.

@emeraldfinder5

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. Each video feels like a high-budget Netflix documentary

@theforsaken1466

2 жыл бұрын

Truly!!

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

2 жыл бұрын

@@CasualScholar how aboud sout to nord china water projec

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

2 жыл бұрын

@@CasualScholar you see usa river to mexico is dry

Bruh, Aral Sea is a salt water lake. 2:04 my friend lives near the area and they have huge salt storms because the drying lake leaves salt behind. This natural phenomenon deserves its own video though so I won’t judge you for not mentioning it. Also, thank you for making this video. English-speaking public is large uninformed about this big issue, so I deeply appreciate your work!

@adventwolfbane

2 жыл бұрын

It is that now because all the fresh water was taken. The salinity levels kept growing in concentration as the lake grew smaller. When it was normal size and as the efforts to restore part of the lake to a larger size that level goes down and will return it to the normal fresh water level. It became "salt water" to the point the fish and plants that lived in and around it died. If it had always been a salt water lake those things wouldn't have died the way they did.

@fakedoorsfordinner1677

2 жыл бұрын

@@adventwolfbane well... no fish survives a 50% salt concentration. No matter the evolutionairy path. I am European though, maybe you have immortal fish

@Correa24bori

2 жыл бұрын

Aral Sea was FRESH not salt. It was a basin that was filled with river water. It became salty over the years.

@fakedoorsfordinner1677

2 жыл бұрын

@@Correa24bori 0.000001% salt concentration = 10% salt concentration when 99.99999% of the water evaporates or gets exported with cotten exports.

@Correa24bori

2 жыл бұрын

@@fakedoorsfordinner1677 ok

really good quality content! It’s a shame that this story is relatable to so many across the world, i live in Australia and have watched as the governments corruption and ineptitude has led to the complete collapse of local marine ecosystems and waterways. Our own Arterial river is barley half of what it used to be.

@Literallyryangosling777

2 жыл бұрын

Sad man, big mining companies stole the land of peasants and force them to move from their peacefull farms that live with the ecosystem to work in coal and gold mines until they die

@donkey7921

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh, you're comparing one of the worst environment catastrophes to Australia... Last time I heard Australia didn't have cancer rates 20x higher than the world average and child slavery...

@cs40660

2 жыл бұрын

@@donkey7921 the mental hurdles you had to leap to come to that conclusion. If you can’t draw comparisons then you probably shouldn’t be engaging in debate to begin with lil homie.

@starky9567

Жыл бұрын

hopefully the new government can make efforts to preserve our country's ecosystem and learn from the mistakes of those before them

This is kinda happening to Urumiah lake in iran . It was once biggest sea lake but now the government is doing something about it and it's slowly recovering

@bakbar7431

2 жыл бұрын

@Imperialist-brazilian(HTF and PVZ) which allies ?

@bakbar7431

2 жыл бұрын

@Imperialist-brazilian(HTF and PVZ) the lake had been disappearing because of climate change for the last 12 years but since 2020 the government started a program restore the lake that's what I meant. And the reason we're are no longer allies with western countries is because when Missadegh ( PRIME Minister in 1951) tried to nationalize oil , US and UK made a coup and brought Iran's shah (king) back to power and that's was why people were mad about shah and in 1979 they formed a revolution , Ayatollah Khomeini( a priest) came to power . He wanted good for Iran but he wasn't a politician so he didn't know what he was doing and he said Iran could become allies with US and UK again if they did something that we could forgive them they refused . When the Iran-Iraq war began almost all countries supported Iraq specially US . Saddam hussein committed several war crimes and after the war we were really angry because of US so we started doing wrong things like storming US embassy and since then everything had become very complicated. Some Iranian politicians are spies , the people hate the government . And the reason some politicians are banning VPN is because of how the western media effects the people . It's the worst more to shut off the western media but it wont happen . And Iran Saudi arabia war is the war between Shia and Sunni which is another on its own .

@dripster4424

Жыл бұрын

@An very person monarchists explaining how if there would be less corruption if one man was in power

Great video, So sad to see such a large lake disappear like that.

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Hope to see further progress from Kazakhstan!

@user-xn5bq8uo6o

2 жыл бұрын

It's sea not a lake. Just a correction

@baldurelitraustason662

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-xn5bq8uo6o it's just called the Aral Sea but it isn't a sea. Bye definition it is a lake

@user-xn5bq8uo6o

2 жыл бұрын

@@baldurelitraustason662 but we call it sea in my language (uzbek). I'm from Uzbekistan as well. We never considered it as a lake

@baldurelitraustason662

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-xn5bq8uo6o well I don't really know what to tell you. If a body of water is surrounded by land is considered a lake, at least where I'm from.

lake Baikal is the largest fresh water lake on the planet. deep 1600 m. In 1960 the USSR decided to make a lycra plant on the shore. The manufacturing required pure water, like DI water. it came out, that the water in the lake is as clean as necessary. However, the waste pipes returned the dirty water back into the same lake. Within 1 week, the water was so bad, the manufacturing stopped.

me when i cut down a forest in civ6 to speed up a wonder

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

Based Comment

@Charles_Anthony

Жыл бұрын

Nah, if you chopped down a forest on a tile in Civ4, there was a chance that tile would turn into a plains tile or even desert in the modern era. I'm a fan of Civ6, but Civ4 did it better.

9:20 - the expression is "stave off" not starve off.

One important detail we missed in this video: Stalin probably got the idea from the USA doing the exact same thing a few decades prior. Tulare Lake in California was the third largest freshwater lake in the US, until Boswell Cotton company came in and drained it to grow cotton in the lake bed.

step 1: destroy nature to make farms step 2: the farms are destroyed too cuz its too dry step 3: ??? step 4: profit

@davidford3115

2 жыл бұрын

What profit? The Soviets didn't give a damn about profits, only results. The system in place is simply a continuation of those terrible Soviet polices.

@Rick-wd5rl

2 жыл бұрын

Step 5: shoot everyone

@UnDark1

2 жыл бұрын

Communists don’t care about profits

@_o..o_1871

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnDark1 The Soviets were basically a bunch of imperialists. The Soviet system was not necessarily socialist (at least not in theory…because of corruption). So, it’s very difficult to call this communism. But I guess you can also apply that to capitalism. Every system is corrupt.

@nyfinest487

2 жыл бұрын

@@_o..o_1871 no perfect systems. Capitalism's trade-offs are better if you study history

1:55 ,,As the sea is seperated into multiple smaller sections." I stopped the video at this point and looked it up, its three sections by now. Which is incredibly terrifying. I still learned of two sections, the Northern and the Southern Aral Sea, the two being connected by a small but existing stream, when I was in school. That was barely 4 years ago. Holy Maccaroni.

@SonicPhonic

Жыл бұрын

The same thing happened with the Salton Sea in California.

@themuckler8176

Жыл бұрын

​@@SonicPhonic Not really

Utopian views of the future always seem to turn out disastrous

Twice you said "starve off" (a problem). The expression is "stave off" which means "to use a staff against".

This reminds me of some ecological details of northern Nevada, with there being another large terminal lake in the region, and a nearby town having increased rates of child leukemia, along with issues if lowering water levels in a large lake in the region, partially as a result of agriculture

@sebastianraber5925

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt call lahontan a large lake

Very interesting video, thank you. Quick question where is the lake with the desert at 4:06?

You know what this reminds me of, a mix between the coast and the canals of HL2. The toxic waste along side small pools of water

@Zmeeed01

2 жыл бұрын

It reminded me of the Wasteland from the HL2 beta

@binbows2258

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Wow never knew about this. Thank you so much for this video!

Great video creep up the good work

The production quality of these videos is incredible.

yet again another well deserved like. keep up the good work

Can you do a video on the mass deforestation that took place under Mao zedong?

@gabrieled.r427

2 жыл бұрын

Far too many things happened under Mao...

Fee labour and serfdom does not exist in Uzbekistan anymore, after the government has changed. I've been in Muynak, a city that has been on the shore of the Aral sea. The catastrophe is dramatic.

@PaperIsMe

5 ай бұрын

I live near that region and the situation is insane!

What an amazing video! Thank you very much.

You'll get to do one of these on the great salt lake soon too. But this time for alfalfa, and not even because it matters economically to the state.

the Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland was inflammable. so many combustible pollutants were dumped into the river that the inhabitants had to take special precautions during the summer to avoid accidentally setting it on fire.

@flow185

2 жыл бұрын

The actual fuck?

@damon3675

2 жыл бұрын

@@flow185 a byproduct of industry and "progress". How many tree huggers could have thought about creating a flammable river?

@Korochun

2 жыл бұрын

In 1920s, the northern Black Sea shores in Soviet Ukraine, by Odessa, were so polluted that a careless cigarette thrown into the sea caused the sea to burn for almost half a year.

@thomashenebry8269

Жыл бұрын

You are lying by omission. That was back in the 1970s. It is literally been cleaned up since then.

@damon3675

Жыл бұрын

@@thomashenebry8269 I said, was. You're not bright huh

Awesome channel man, keep up the good work!

7-9 inches grows good winter wheat. Time to change what they are growing.

The same issue is happening with the great salt lake in Utah

@vixen878

2 жыл бұрын

@@nuggets0717 capitalism is equivalent to slave labor.

@e.e9331

Жыл бұрын

@@nuggets0717 Bro, I live there. Exploiting children is illegal, although it once was a common practice in early 00s. When I was a kid I voulanterely traveled with my mom to harvest, but it was only one day. Usually every government worker must to go on plantation somewhere between september-october to harvest, unless you can bribe your way out. Surprisingly enough, people in Tashkent (the capital) have little to no idea that this practice even exist in other regions.

Rising salt levels are caused by evaporation though, not irrigation. (Irrigation removes salt as well as water)

@jensboettiger5286

Жыл бұрын

irrigation of dry land followed by evaporation deposits salts

Aral sea is real life mad max environment

The atrocities of the Soviet union need to be available to learn more. Good job with this video

@loona_mew

2 жыл бұрын

same with Americans atrocities

@DiegoF1ores

Жыл бұрын

@@loona_mew they are very well know but people tends to say that the USSR was very good unlike the USA that constantly tells him all the bad they have done.

@PresidentEvil

Жыл бұрын

@@loona_mew Americans "atrocities" don't hold a candle to most countries

@ysaww4573

Жыл бұрын

@@loona_mew yet everyone knows them

@stargazer378

Жыл бұрын

@@ysaww4573 Because their very well documented... Not many people know about the atrocities the Japanese committed during WW2, but they still happened.

Great content!

Brazil is doing something similar to the Amazon rainforest. Destroying acres of it in order to plant crops and boost the logging industry

@johnblackbasel393

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are deep into palm oil. Let see how their descent will enjoy having nothing else to drink & eat... Nothing else but palm oil.

These videos are amazing

This is basically the Great Salt Lake's future.

@themuckler8176

Жыл бұрын

Those types of lakes come and go through time

*Worst manmade disaster so far

@Casual Scholar, what is the music used starting at 4:19?

@mikecostanza303

Жыл бұрын

@@PresentingPhilNoir You are the fuckin GOAT, sir!

Fantastic Video!

A well researched video with amazing visuals. Concise and informative. Immediate subscription.

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! :)

amazing video :)

No, we CAN bend nature to our desires. We just have to plan it very well and be aware of the consequences.

@HDTomo

2 жыл бұрын

Qatarra depression lake 😏

@KissatenYoba

2 жыл бұрын

Stalin's plans for digging channels all over the place were shafted by Khruschev, though, who replaced them with suboptimal plans out of political need to destalinize, i.e. to expel stalinists from the positions of power Check this, for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Turkmen_Canal >After Stalin's death in 1953, construction of the Main Turkmen Canal ceased. In 1954 construction of the Qaraqum Canal began, along a route far to the south. It stretches 1300 km and irrigates a substantial part of Turkmenistan, and remains the most important canal in Turkmenistan. >Construction of Qaraqum Canal drained the Amu Darya river and therefore enabled huge areas to be opened for cotton production. Nevertheless, it also resulted in the destruction of the native riparian tugay forests, and greatly diminished the inflow of water to the Aral Sea, which caused great ecological catastrophe. Lysenko is similar, Lysenko's breeding programs and green belts all over the place were replaced with virgin lands campaign and corn.

@neptun6761

2 жыл бұрын

Nuclear power

@davidford3115

2 жыл бұрын

@@KissatenYoba Many of Stalin's plans were not practical, much less feasible. It is easy to declare you are going to do drastic geo-engineering. It is quite another matter to actually carry out those plans.

@KissatenYoba

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidford3115 half of Stalin's "crazy impractical unfeasible plans" are getting done today, and the other half is desired by the population. Those plans were deemed bad by Khruschev, who in response promoted other plans deemed completely failure by everyone, but somehow Stalin's plans were the real failure, huh? Arctic road? Getting built. Green belts all over the place? Everyone's begging for them in Russia, because Lysenko's old ones were decimated by bad weather the last decade + global warming + China does it in their deserts, and everyone looks poor by not doing the same. Volga-Ural channel? Kazakhstan is begging Russia to make it. Yakutia's railroad? Yakuts built it with their own money. Thousands of examples. Even Siberian river exchange had work done on it somewhat due to logging activity. And yet antistalinists can't admit that Stalin was right. Almost like antistalinism is purely ideological and not based on facts or logic

1:48 the lake looks like a heart. A bit ironic I think

@callmeviper7723

2 жыл бұрын

You mean coincidental, not ironic.

@skeletony2812

2 жыл бұрын

@@callmeviper7723 no I mean ironic. Cause once it's gone life was too 🤷‍♂️

I'm from Uzbekistan and forcing people to harvest and collect cotton stopped 3years ago

Surprisingly many Russians and central Asians have little nostalgia for the Aral Sea. They think it was a “mistake of nature” and worth sacrificing. Perhaps generations of being told it was a worthless evaporator sunk in.

@wawaweewa9159

Жыл бұрын

Oh, man the opportunities, nowadays with floating solar plus sea based windturbines and soo much water for fresh water fish farming, these two countries could benefit more than ever

This sounds exactly like what California is doing with lake mead and the Colorado river. Using the water to turn deserts into farmland

@shitlordflytrap1078

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it goes much further than that. North America used to possess one of the largest underwater aquifers on the planet. Now, it's essentially empty from usage during the first expansions into the West.

@tomtheconqerur

2 жыл бұрын

How much you bet that California will start child slave labor when the lakes are gone?

I thought you had like 2 million subscribers until I saw that you only had 45.1 thousand subscribers

@countytunavids

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought

6:28 this is maize (which requires huge amounts of irrigation), not cotton.

Aral sea largest freshwater lake in the world.......R.I.P Geography 😭

This is truly enlightening. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Just goes to show how there is not one part of this planet that is affected by human activity.

My mom and some other members of my family had to work on these fields. Really fucked up stuff

@Sernival

2 жыл бұрын

Good

I’m supposed to be in school But I’ll watch this Thanks for the Education

Many older people from Russia remember the time they had to work in fields as school students/university students with nostalgia as something modern schools should do to teach kids good work ethics and being close to nature

No nature, no economy, no happy living.

Bruh my Father told me about the Aral Sea right now and now this video was in my recommend Conciodence? I think not

Hey, recently just stumbled across the channel and I'm blown away as to how you don't have more subscribers! The information is great, extremely and professionally made map animations, you're on your way to success ! Do you by any chance have any social media by which I can contact you on? Maybe discord?

“Destroying nature for economic growth or the history of humanity” is actually the title of my dissertation

Literal slavery going on in Uzbekistan. That's fucked up

@e.e9331

Жыл бұрын

Bro, I live there. Exploiting children is illegal, although it once was a common practice in early 00s. When I was a kid I voulanterely traveled with my mom to harvest, but it was only one day. Usually every government worker must to go on plantation somewhere between september-october to harvest, unless you can bribe your way out. Surprisingly enough, people in Tashkent (the capital) have little to no idea that this practice even exist in other regions.

And what does pride have to do with it? After all, channels were carried out from the Aral Sea in order to help everyone who lived there: they made a lot of jobs, planted a huge number of territories. And it seems that in the published documentary it was said that when irrigating fields, 30% of the water inflow into the Aral Sea was taken. And in this video there are a lot of understatements, which makes it seem that the drying of the Aral Sea is 100% the fault of the Soviet Union.

I feel like this is the future of Lake Mead and the Colorado River... 😟

1:03 Caspian Sea: “Am I a joke to you?”

@_o..o_1871

2 жыл бұрын

The Caspian Sea is actually a lake

@E4439Qv5

2 жыл бұрын

@@_o..o_1871 salt lake

Most of it drianed after 1991

My globe is old enough it still has this sea on it

In USA Colorado river also run dry and do no reach the sea anymore because of cotton irrigation in Arizona etc. Same with San Joaquin river of central valley. Depleating and mismanagement of water ressorces for unsustainable agricultural prectises is a problem many places on earth

@alfonsomunoz4424

Жыл бұрын

Yup. The US should have learned from the Aral Sea disaster.

Great content, thank you. Perhaps DDT not DEET.

Good work Kazakhstan!

@wheeliebeast7679

Жыл бұрын

Very nice!

The Aral Sea was, is, a terminus of a watershed so is a true sea. Thank you for this video. So sad to see.its demise.

That’s complete false, I’m from Uzbekistan, sure perhaps farmers who were conservative and religious didn’t want to send their children to school they would rather send them on cotton fields to work and earn money. Actually Aral Sea located in Karakalpakstan which is autonomous territory from Uzbekistan. A lot of students from Universities did cotton picking, including my grandma it was mandatory for them because they receive monthly grant from the government for attending University, and they didn’t have to pay tuition, Universities were free but you had to contribute somehow, so you did that by picking the cotton. Back then people didn’t care that much about environment, two rivers that fed Aral Sea were diverted to cotton fields irrigation.

@harvard247

Жыл бұрын

until 2016 there was child slavery after our dictator karimov died it was stopped by mirziyoyev

@vkrgfan

Жыл бұрын

@@harvard247 Well, that has nothing to do with the Soviet Union, it has a lot to do with poverty and Islamic practices. Stalin actually tried to stop injustices in Central Asia, but you can't control everything, people that weren't living in major cities and lived on farms instead used their children of course because there was no oversight no one cared, and women weren't allowed to work and attend higher educational institution under Islamic law. If the Soviets enforced it, Uzbeks would scream that Russians are trying to take away our "culture and traditions". Central Asia is still pretty much traditionally Islamic. You can read here what the Soviets tried to do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hujum

Im assuming it's possible to largely clean up the wasteland and dam off the artificial rivers, replenishing the original lake? Since water doesn't simply, disappear...

@Ben-fx9kx

2 жыл бұрын

Would cost billions though. Like 10s of billions. And no one's gonna front that bill

@supergamergrill7734

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ben-fx9kx well. They just need to sucker up to China or the us and 10B will be on their feet by the end of the week

The Casual Scholar is more scholarly and factually accurate than channels who claim to be professionals with a dozen or more subscribers Kudos to you

When I saw the thumbnail, I was thinking, "did Fact Boy start another channel?"

Yoo my mind is nasty. But really interesting video.

I had always wondered what that massive dried up sea was. Never guessing this was the cause!

I was born in Usbekistan. My mother told me how they had to support harvesting cotton an other thing anually. It was sold them as a kind of national duty and this practice goes far back into the 70's. Maybe even before, since that was quite common in the Soviet Union. But I wouldn't be surprised if this is still a common practice in countries as China to use cheap labor resources. What they did with the sea is indead a tragedy and catastrophy. A topic that was never really issued in the region or Soviet Union. And as correctly mention in the video, most are not interested to change anything, since their agriculture is build on the two rivers that suppose to feed the see.

cotton brings out the best in people

@gtbkts

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao

What a tragic ending to what was once a lake. That lake we'll never be seen again.

Activists: "We must shift from animal-based farming sectors to plant-based agriculture for the environment.." This video:

my mothers 1st boyfriend died at the age of 16 at those cotton fields, he was a bit sick when he was send to work, and with a weaken immune system got poisoned in the fields from pesticide

many of you are aware of tulare. . . . . . glad to see that

Makes me think about how people think you can drain water out of the Great Lakes for the Western states. That are a natural arid area with to many people who want to live in the sunshine all year.

@ancalyme

Жыл бұрын

Them living there is fine with modern transport networks, the real hubris is trying to do so much water intensive farming there.

@Rickmanou81293

Жыл бұрын

Disdain for western states always finds its way to an internet comment.

Every '5 year plan' was lacking in a key point: consequences of the actions required to achieve the Plan. Discussing potential side-effects was seen as anti-progressive; better to reap the benefits now than to worry about what ripples there might be. There is nothing unique about the shortsightedness involved, just how fast it is happening.

@cyberneticbutterfly8506

Жыл бұрын

Corporate capitalism on the other hand never did anything without carefully considering the consequences...

11:35 image is upside down, or at least has north and south reversed.

Its simply amazing how much the soviet union could fuck up almost any aspects it controlled

Even when dead, stallin still finds a way to make everyone miserable

Oh, we can bend nature to our will, but not right now, we are nowhere near the energy requirements to do that. And unless we stop all conflicts we can never reach that. It'll take us thousands of years to reach that instead of decades.

something which never gets shown in these kind of videos for some reason would be a comparison of the fishing vs cotton economy.

Woah, how are they causing an ecological disaster with no profit motive?

When will people learn? Eutopia's aren't just created by man, it's a balance with nature, not total control and final say.

1:00 imaginary land boundaries do not affect climate. The reason any place is dry could be any of: being long way from the sea, being deforested, having high drainage, having few mountain ranges.

I'm the 800th subscriber :D Btw can you please do a video about latam or just Brazil?

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Did you see my video on Latin America??

@olairmao

2 жыл бұрын

@@CasualScholar i did but I feel like Brazil could be a cool topic of a video sens there's alot to say about Brazil bechuse many stuff isn't brought upp that much

Even Caspian sea is drying 😓

why dont they irrigate landlocked areas?

Hahaha The title describes perfect southern California and the mid states of US. The dust bowl.

Haha. Where I live in Canada I've seen +40 /-40 in the same year. It sucks those extremes.

Nice vid 😎

@CasualScholar

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!