Environmental Catastrophes In The Dust Bowl
Professor Donald Worster has another theory in mind. "Professor Worster is a leader in the field of environmental history. He is a professor at the University of Kansas and has written several book on environmental topics". In his book, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's he states;
"The Dust Bowl took only 50 years to accomplish...It came about because the culture was operating in precisely the way it was supposed to. Americans blazed their way across a richly endowed continent with a ruthless, devastating efficiency unmatched by any people anywhere. Some environmental catastrophes are nature's work, others are the slowly accumulating effects of ignorance or poverty. The Dust Bowl, in contrast was the inevitable outcome of a culture
"The Dust Bowl took only 50 years to accomplish...It came about because the culture was operating in precisely the way it was supposed to. Americans blazed their way across a richly endowed continent with a ruthless, devastating efficiency unmatched by any people anywhere. Some environmental catastrophes are nature's work, others are the slowly accumulating effects of ignorance or poverty. The Dust Bowl, in contrast was the inevitable outcome of a culture