00:00One of the biggest lakes in the world is starting to disappear, and no one speaks.
00:03However, this is not a myth or a climate projection, it's already happened.
00:07At the time, the mer d'Aral was the fourth largest lake in the world.
00:10Today, it's almost completely evaporated,
00:13leaving behind her a desert filled with water.
00:17But how did a entire mer disappear?
00:20In the 1960s, the Soviet Union détourne the two rivers
00:23who feed it to irrigate the cotton fields in the desert.
00:25As a result, more water, more fish, more life.
00:29The salinity explodes, the biodiversity evaporates,
00:33and the toxic tempest of toxic sable balayent the region.
00:35It's one of the worst ecological disaster of the 20th century.
00:38Some efforts have allowed to save a small part of the mer from the side of Kazakhstan,
00:42but the rest is definitely lost.
00:44A whole mer, effaced by a political decision,
00:47a brutal report of what the human engineering can provoke
00:49when it ignores the natural limits.
00:51If nothing changes, the mer d'Aral could totally disappear
00:54until the end of the 30th century,
00:56according to several scientific studies.
00:57The part of the south is already almost séchée,
00:59and is considered as irregular.
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