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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: maceng2 who wrote (9909)11/11/2001 8:28:05 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi Pearly,

The devastation of the Aral Sea is something I became aware of through the efforts of Al Gore, in "Earth in the Balance". The photo of the abandoned fishing fleet, marooned in a desert forty miles from the shore of the shrinking sea were very eerie. And the indigenous and formerly self-sufficient fishermen lost out because of decisions made in Moscow to drain the rivers flowing into the Aral in order to irrigate cotton fields, the production of which was largely exported to India for hard currency. Ah, the tradeoffs....and the middlemen. Oy.

-Ray
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