Dust Bowl Sustainability

The reasons why the people had started the madness. People’s actions caused the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl left people with nothing at the time. It also killed lots of people around the areas of the Dust Bowl.“Most early settlers used the land for livestock grazing until agricultural mechanization combined with high grain prices during World War I.” (Dust Bowl) People wanted even more when they should have stopped sooner. “By 1941 much of the land was rehabilitated, but the region repeated its mistakes during World War II as farmers again plowed up grassland to plant wheat when grain prices rose.” (Dust Bowl) The land was improving a little bit, but the people made the same mistake again. “ Lured by a land lush with shrubs, grasses, and soil so rich it looked like chocolate, the farmers didn’t realize that what they were witnessing.”(Introduction, Surviving The Dust Bowl) The

The Dust Bowl, it was the largest man-made ecological disaster in the 1930s. Although some people might argue that human have very little to do with it, or the whole event was nothing but the result of climate change, there are many factors to prove that human activities such as, overgrazing, heavy agricultural machinery, overly expended the grass land for farming, and habitat destruction were the key factors that led to the Dust Bowl. When watching the documentary about the Dust Bowl, one can see that before the Europeans and the farmers took over the land, it was naturally covered with beautiful native plants, such as tall grass and flowers. In the meantime, there were also native species like coyotes, buffalos, and rabbets which were totally controlled in term of numbers. But also, they were there as a

Between the 1930s and 1940s, the southwestern Great Plains region of America suffered a severe environmental disaster known as the Dust Bowl, that resulted from the combination of a huge water shortage and harsh farming techniques. The drought-stricken plains experienced relentless dust storms that swept through Texas to Nebraska, killing crops, livestock and people. The Dust Bowl further intensified the devastating economical impacts of the Great Depression and drove hundreds of families to migrate in search of work and better living conditions all the while capturing the nation’s artists, musicians, and writers.

Rays of golden sunlight were piercing the blue sky. Today was a hot day. There had been no rain in the last month. A young child was playing in the field while his father was harvesting the crops. The boy was playing among the newly harvested golden vegetables. There were a lot more vegetables than he remembered from years past. The boy knew they were going to sell most of this harvest. Where are the other plants that he remembered? Why was corn the only thing growing? Why is it in straight lines instead of winding around the property like it normally did? He pondered these questions on the way to school. Today, unlike normal, his teacher let him out of school early. Though he thought nothing of it at the time the sky was turning dark. It

The Dust Bowl was a treacherous storm, which occurred in the years of the 1930’s, which affected the Midwestern people, an example the farmers, which taught us new technologies and methods of farming. John Steinbeck wrote in his novel from 1939 The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, Caravans, carloads, and homeless. Totals of 20,000, 50,000, 100,000, and 200,000 people. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, food, and most of all for land." The early thirties opened with prosperity and growth. At the time the Midwest was full of agricultural

The Dust Bowl added quickly to the chaos of The Great Depression during the 1930s. The Dust Bowl was a natural disaster and mainly erosion of topsoil which caused dusters and black blizzards. It mainly hit the area of the southwest which included the following states Kansas,Oklahoma, Arkansas, Dakota etc. A quick brief of what The Dust Bowl did … it affected more than a million of acres of land that were used mainly for farming. Also, thousands of farmers lost their livelihoods and properties, and migration began to emerge as farmers left rural areas to find work in the suburbs. Some people who were mainly affected by The Dust Bowl were people in the

Additionally, these wars, the great depression, and the Dust Bowls set motion for what is now known as the Great Migration. The Great Migration was a war spurred movement of African Americans migrating from the rural South to the North. This resulted in a total of 700,000 African Americans resettling in the North (Foner). In the commencement of the memoir Angelou and her brother Bailey are transported to Stamps Arkansas : “ … we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas”(4). Presently after the great depression Angelou and her brother migrate back North once again to visit their mother in San Francisco. Little did they know that they were one of the 700,000 African Americans partaking

Agriculture in California was the reason many migrants viewed the state as one with many economical opportunities. There were fewer jobs available than those advertised. Even the jobs that were available provided terrible pay. One had to think of the idea that low pay was greater than no pay. Corporate farms provided poor living conditions, but it had to be ignored by those who were seeking jobs (“The Dust Bowl”). White folks from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas increased in quantity. They were in search of harvesting jobs (“Mass Exodus from the Plains”). The WPA, Workers Progress Administration, was one to provide migrants with many jobs. This was part of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. A total of 8.5 million people were employed, and they earned

Did you know that chinchillas took dust baths? Well Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado had took their own in the years of 1930’s. The Dust Bowl was a ten year dust storm that was a continuous downpour destroying millions of agriculture and lives of thousands of people. The Dust Bowl later called the “ Dirty Thirties” was caused by a continuous drought that happened a year before the Dust Bowl and the next ten years of it. Over the ten years of the Dust Bowl, the more time that grew the more dust and destruction it caused to everything around it.

In the article,” Why Bother” written by Michael Pollen, he explains how the environment has gotten very bad over time. He talks about sustainability, global warming, and the cheap-energy mind in his article. He tells us that we need to act now before the phenomenon gets worse. Have you paid attention to the environment lately? Have you noticed the rising temperature around the world? Have you noticed the melting of the ice caps? If you haven’t you are about to be in for a surprise. The world has gotten very bad and we need to act now. There are a lot of causes to the environmental problems. The main cause are from farmers all around the world. Farmers are a lot more technologically advanced then what they were 50 years ago compared to now. The problem with the farmers are the overuse of energy, erosion of the soil, and pollution. The answer to all of these problems is sustainable agriculture because it is more efficient and better for the environment.

The farmers were affected by the dust bowl because of drought.The dust bowl also affected them by taking the farmer's crops.The farmers had lost their land and were forced to move with no money and food.The farmers traveled to find jobs and food in the west.The farmers then would either have to start farming again or try something else such as orange pickers for money.

First, the current development of our natural resources is unsustainable because we are using much more than the amount that nature can reproduce for future generations. For example, we are cutting down trees faster than they could grow back and we use fossil fuels that by some estimates take "millions of years to form." This is clearly not sustainable because we are using resources quicker than the amount that nature produces every

In order to preserve our resources, environmentalists use the concept of sustainable development-sustainable development is a development that satisfies our current needs without compromising the future availability of natural resources, or our future quality of life. Our consumption rates have risen significantly higher; according to the World Watch Institute, and their article The State of Consumption Today, the rate has gone up thirty-five percent, and we are now ecologically at risk. Nevertheless, who can we blame but

If you were alive in the 1930’s you may recall the Dust Bowl era and if you lived in the eastern part of the United States you lived in the storm. The Dust Bowl was the era in which a drought lasted from 1930 to1935. It formed with contributions from humans, it affected the people in the storm dearly.The supply and demand, caused people to lose land, money, and had to live in devastating conditions.

The average human being, multiplied by the Earth’s population, would need to have about four Earths just to supply enough resources (Footprint Calculator). Thinking of people around the world, the people of the United States seem to take a lot of their life for granted. Many people when they hear of the polar ice caps melting wave it off and either don’t believe in it or believe it is not their problem. Well it is their problem and if we don’t jump on the issue soon we will not be giving our future generations much of a life. This brings me to the idea of sustainability. A simple description of the word means that what we have today we will also have tomorrow, next week, next year, or even the next lifetime. Although that is the modest version sustainability is much, much more than just that. Sustainability is derived from three main parts of the human life: environmental, social, and economic. Each being just as important as the other. Environmental is the most well-known aspect of sustainability in human life, but both social and economic take their place in keeping this Earth sustainable.