I can't remember, but there is a lake in the Middle East or Africa (dunno) that originally was vast in size. The surrounding population used to really be able to live off the lake in terms of fishing, etc. There was even a hotel on the water's edge but since then the size has decreased drastically. That same hotel is so far away that I think you now have to take a tram to even get to the water.

Any ideas? I'm suffering from severe brain crappage right now and google isn't helping so I come here.

12/8/2006 8:32:56 AM

Lake Chad is in Africa its about gone now....

12/8/2006 8:35:06 AM

The Aral Sea was mentioned in 'An Inconvienent Truth' -

It's been shrinking since the sixties due in a big part to over-irrigation, and global warming hasn't helped... it's been drying up so fast that shipping fleets built canals in a desperate effort to make it back to the ocean, but didn't make it, as you can see... pretty scary stuff

12/8/2006 8:37:08 AM

^ THANK YOU! Exactly what I was looking for.

12/8/2006 8:37:27 AM

no problemo, glad i could help

12/8/2006 8:40:47 AM

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"global warming hasn't helped"

a myth

12/8/2006 9:51:37 AM

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"a myth"

a myth

[Edited on December 8, 2006 at 10:05 AM. Reason : end quote]

12/8/2006 10:04:43 AM

u people seriously think its a myth?

12/8/2006 10:07:51 AM

you mean to tell me that the world didn't stop changing once humans began inhabiting it?

12/8/2006 10:18:27 AM

Are you kidding me? A myth?

Yeah cause I guess dumping tons of poisonous fuel/exhaust into the environment every year has no effect. What are we thinking.

12/8/2006 12:16:17 PM

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"u people seriously think its a myth?"

It's about as mythical as our sucky president. And we all know how sucky he is.

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"you mean to tell me that the world didn't stop changing once humans began inhabiting it?"

Pretend there is a soccer field out in the middle of nowhere. One month goes by and the grass grows really tall. Three months go by and the grass has turned yellow and dead. 6 more months go by and the grass goes green again, though a little bit taller than last year.

Then pretend there is a soccer field out in the middle of nowhere again. But, this time there are kids that come and play on it every single day of the month. And for the next 9 months they continue to play on the soccer field. Riddle me this, how does the grass look like on that field now?

The world has not stopped changing. It's that we are changing it too. And in a sense, "the grass cannot grow back fast enough to replinish itself because we keep stepping on it".

12/8/2006 12:17:50 PM

I dunno, the grass on our football field always seemed to grow


I see what you are saying, but people act like the world is somehow going to stay in the shape that it was when we got here... it's not, it's constantly evolving and it's out of our hands, one day, even when humans may no longer inhabit this planet, it will all be gone

12/8/2006 12:21:23 PM

Constantly changing is accepted, constantly changing with a rate that has a linear relationship to the amount of pollution we expel is not a mere coincedence.

12/8/2006 12:23:56 PM

I'm not saying we shouldn't do our part to help keep this place cleaner and nicer than the people before us, thats a given and should be what everyone strives for

12/8/2006 12:27:53 PM

global warming took care of the dinosaurs

it was all those dinosaur farts

they melted the ice caps and caused an ice age

12/8/2006 12:29:32 PM

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"Yeah cause I guess dumping tons of poisonous fuel/exhaust into the environment every year has no effect."

Just to be an ass I thought I'd mention that all of that fuel came from the environment.

12/8/2006 12:31:18 PM

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"I'm not saying we shouldn't do our part to help keep this place cleaner and nicer than the people before us, thats a given and should be what everyone strives for"

I agree, I think it's a moral obligation seeing as how all of us and all of our kids have to share this little rock

12/8/2006 12:41:00 PM

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"There was even a hotel on the water's edge but since then the size has decreased drastically. That same hotel is so far away that I think you now have to take a tram to even get to the water."

You could also be thinking of the "Dead Sea", a lake in Isreal that gets a lot of tourism because of its incredibly high salt content and extremely low elevation. Its been evaporating too recently.

12/8/2006 12:48:37 PM

diverting the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for irrigation

is very different from

GLOOOOOBBBAALLLL WAAARRRMMMMIIIIINNNNGGGGG..............

12/8/2006 1:16:03 PM

There was a clip on 60 minutes, CNN, or on one of the cbs/nbc/abc nightly news about the Dead Sea that mentioned everything that you said in the original post... I believe it was a health spa that used the salty water from the sea, but is now over 1 mile away from the shore.

12/8/2006 1:22:48 PM

nothing but a bunch of idiots in this thread

12/8/2006 1:24:22 PM

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"Just to be an ass I thought I'd mention that all of that fuel came from the environment."

True, but there's a process involved to get that fuel. Pouring gas/oil into a river isn't exactly putting it back to make things even the best way possible, haha. Valid point though, touché.

12/8/2006 2:00:26 PM

LAKE EMO

12/8/2006 2:19:06 PM

^^I agree I just felt the need to contradict something.

12/8/2006 4:30:38 PM