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What about drainage of Aral Sea for short term gain, were Soviet citizens also victims of Soviet neoliberalism?
by xyzzyz 3y ago
What about drainage of Aral Sea for short term gain, were Soviet citizens also victims of Soviet neoliberalism?
- vegetablepotpie 3y agoEnvironmental destruction doesn’t have a single exclusive cause. There is the horseshoe theory that says that either extremes have more in common with each other then they have with the center [1]. If I we’re to connect neoliberalism with Soviet communism, I’d say that both ideologies are examples of high modernism, which is the idea that leaders can optimize on a metric and ignore all other factors that contribute to their countries success. This never has positive outcomes for the people living in those countries. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
- gdy 3y agoIt wasn't drained and the gain wasn't short term -- the water from the rivers that used to flow to the Aral See is used for irrigation.