01:450:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Derweze, Nuclear Explosion, Acute Radiation Syndrome
28 Jan 2020
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Environmental degradation is the price for modernization. Every country in this region has negative environmental legacy stemming from soviet era. Environmental issues include radioactive hazards, legacies of resource extraction, overexploitation of soil and water resources. Environmental issues were necessary evils" on the path to economic development . Where problems required solutions human ingenuity and technology were the suggestions . People had little power or ability to affect change . This ideology not exclusive to communist systems! Radiation sickness: 000s killed as a consequence. However site has been fascinating real world case study of environmental recovery. Many animals have returned, town of pripyat slowly being enveloped by forest. A great example of the anthropocene, a human produced environment. In the 1970s geologists tried to burn off naturally occurring methane . In the 1960s soviet union began to divert water from lake to irrigate land for farming. Visualizing this change over time uses a geographical technique called remote sensing.
