http://waterblogged.info/2007/07/05/the-amazing-disappearing-lakes-pt-2-the-aral-sea/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://waterblogged.info/2007/07/05/the-amazing-disappearing-lakes-pt-2-the-aral-sea/#comment-1303 Jared Simpson Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:33:47 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/07/05/the-amazing-disappearing-lakes-pt-2/#comment-1303 There's no other species that believes it has a mandate to control nature. And to date, we haven't learned from our past mistakes, except on very rare occasions. Thanks for the comment, Erik. There’s no other species that believes it has a mandate to control nature. And to date, we haven’t learned from our past mistakes, except on very rare occasions. Thanks for the comment, Erik.

]]> http://waterblogged.info/2007/07/05/the-amazing-disappearing-lakes-pt-2-the-aral-sea/#comment-1301 erik ceslis Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:37:51 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/07/05/the-amazing-disappearing-lakes-pt-2/#comment-1301 What a disaster of gargantuan proportion!! The former USSR communist regime who was directly responsible for this catastrophe should be publicly held accountable, the flow of the two rivers into the Aral Sea should be restored by the Russian Government by order of United Nations, indeed their legacy is seen far and wide throughout Asia. I am a descendant from Latvian parents residing in Australia and a trip to Latvia in 1994 highlighted the poor state of roads, infrastructure and social chaos the Soviets left on their departure from the Baltic States. Professor Jared Diamond's Book Collapse highlights how many former countries suffered under the various practices by former regimes and how we as a society can learn from our past mistakes, however do we as a society actually learn and correct past practices at the expense of economic pressures. I think that we as humans over the millennia have proven to be the worst kind of animal to have ever existed on our beautiful planet. What a disaster of gargantuan proportion!! The former USSR communist regime who was directly responsible for this catastrophe should be publicly held accountable, the flow of the two rivers into the Aral Sea should be restored by the Russian Government by order of United Nations, indeed their legacy is seen far and wide throughout Asia. I am a descendant from Latvian parents residing in Australia and a trip to Latvia in 1994 highlighted the poor state of roads, infrastructure and social chaos the Soviets left on their departure from the Baltic States.
Professor Jared Diamond’s Book Collapse highlights how many former countries suffered under the various practices by former regimes and how we as a society can learn from our past mistakes, however do we as a society actually learn and correct past practices at the expense of economic pressures.
I think that we as humans over the millennia have proven to be the worst kind of animal to have ever existed on our beautiful planet.

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