• sevenapples
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      8 months ago

      This does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.

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        8 months ago

        But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.

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          8 months ago

          next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱

          correlation 🤝 causation

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          8 months ago

          That implication wasn’t made. The original comment mentions how it took men 70 years to drain it (meaning that the drainage started during the USSR), and the comment below does not challenge that fact.