Dust Bowl

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In Koppes article, he is making a comparison between the works of Bonnifield and Worster  discussing the impact of the Dust Bowl on the American of economy. He argues that the Dust Bowl has been scholarly researched to a minimum because it is primarily defined as a natural disaster that only resulted in economic downfalls. Koppes argues that Worster’s theory of nature as a source of capitalism led to the severe destruction of the environment. There was an increasing amount of clearing of grass in order to have more acres for farmland. He also discusses how Worster believed that the New Deal was only helpful to the farmers in the way of relief rather than reform because they were not given a new way to advance after the economic downfall.

I thought it was interesting what my peer Heaven said, “Because of the less rain fall and lack of water resources this led to new government programs.“. The dust bowl happened during the depression which was a huge loss for the agriculture industry. Koppes also compares the dust bowl to Marxisn in that the exploitation of the land was as the bourgeois exploiting the proletariat. I think that Koppes argued that the Dust bowl was an economic but also an environmental disaster and that may have been a result of overwhelming capitalism.