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That was far far more the Soviets' fault, not "our" fault.
by xlm1717 11y ago
That was far far more the Soviets' fault, not "our" fault.
- Killah911 11y agoAh! That makes it much better. At least I'm not to blame. (Sarcasm) I think "we"(humans) need to take more responsibility as a whole. If one of the people in your life boat is drilling a whole in the bottom in the middle of the sea, being able to place blame doesn't matter so much. "We" are all going down if "we" can't do something about it.
- linkregister 11y agoSubsuming responsibility for things that one could have prevented is one thing; accepting responsibility for something that nothing short of war could have prevented is another.
- cjensen 11y agoAnd the US eliminated the largest freshwater lake West of the Mississippi [1]. [1] (largest by area) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
- JBReefer 11y agoA. Whataboutism is lame B. The Aral Sea was 10x larger [1] C. I do appreciate the irony of A D. the scale of both is mindblowing, so I upvoted you [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
- cjensen 11y agoSorry: I meant that as a response to the notion that the Soviets made a unique error with the Aral (hence the "don't blame us" stated in the parent) rather than being a common symptom of water diversion worldwide. It was not meant as to be a whataboutism, which is an awesome word for bad moral equivalence. I am so stealing that.
- awakeasleep 11y agoWhataboutism is lame when used to excuse a behavior, but completely valid when used to rebut accusations of unique malfeasance. There is a big difference between something being your problem vs our problem.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoWikipedia is wrong there. It lists a maximum surface area of 1,780 km^2 (690 sq mi) for Tulare Lake, while Lake Iliamna in Alaska is 2,622 km^2 (1,012.5 sq mi).
- zymhan 11y agoWe're all humans, and we're all responsible for the Earth.