World News

3424 readers

238 users here now

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml

sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml

ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml

ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml

Seeds across deserts: China and Uzbekistan revive Aral Sea ecosystem (news.cgtn.com)

submitted 1 week ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dazaroo@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

mb ig I shouldn't apply modern environmental standards to a developing nation from half a century ago

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Environmentalism wasn’t as big as it is now and for example marx understood in more of a “farmer not having the foresight to care about his agricultural practices running the soil fertility” type of way.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Actually, in a lot of ways the Soviets were far ahead of their time in ecological conservation efforts, like Stalin's ecological initiatives

Unfortunately Soviet policies also changed with time and some of the later periods saw a regression in environmental policies.