April 2002 Issue [Article] Eternal winter Adjust Share Lessons of the Aral Sea disaster by Tom Bissell, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 21st century Aral Sea Aral Sea (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) Effect of human beings on Environmental conditions Environmental degradation Kara-Kalpaks (Turkic people) Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan) Kazakhstan Nature Social conditions Uzbekistan Uzbeks More from Tom Bissell Who’s Laughing Now? The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live My Holy Land Vacation Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists New Books Ezra Pound’s dictum “Make It New” has long been cited as modernism’s driving objective. Yet Pound, in coining the phrase, was actually drawing on his own (rather free) translation of… Adjust Share