losing lakes like these changes weather, it was an enormous ecological disaster for interior asia. yet it can still be demonstrated, throughout their entirety, ussr and china, vietnam, burkina faso, and other marxist aligned countries are far better ecologically principaled and actually learn from their fuckups compared to colonized, capitalist states.

ussr had a bit a colonialist mindset, at the least in a bioregional way, the first half of the 20th century. i wouldn’t argue this was intentional, but rather lack of foresight based on western scientific knowledge and theory that itself was rooted in imperialist bias and coercion.

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Or was it? A settlement was apparently discovered in what used to be the bottom of the lake. Perhaps it’s a bit more complicated than we’re led to believe