Natural or Unnatural?

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Knowles writes about the fact that dust storms and low precipitation where always something that existed along the Great Plains. He argues that a lack of population is a major factor as why there was not a lot of information regarding the dust storms that apparently occurred with regularity in this region. Ramsescastillo03 talks about Worster’s theory that the dust bowl was a manmade disaster but the numbers from data tells that dust storms existed prior to this event and with the effect of major drought would have occurred again regardless of man’s impact. http://Dust Bowl: Natural or Man Made?  That said, Knowles does seem to concede despite data showing dust storms and drought would have occurred naturally that man’s contribution from over plowing made the situation possibly much worse than it would have been. The text also makes an interesting point that media during this time uses this event to benefit the promotion of the new deal program as well as others. I tend to lean toward the idea that Capitalism played a large role in the dust bowl from our previous readings. The earth in the Great Plains was abused for the purpose of profit and in the aid of war effort. Had people taken closer consideration to the obvious environment around them rather than the idea of producing as much as possible as fast as possible things would have been far less catastrophic throughout the Great Plains. Knowles also has data that some of the other historians writing about the dust bowl did not have access to at the time they wrote their arguments. As I stated earlier there just wasn’t a lot of information about the conditions along the Great Plains and an explanation relating back to Capitalism was given. In the promotion of bringing settlers to this area, talking about drought and dust storms would have been counter productive.