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In the 1930s, the United States faced severe droughts and dust storms due to the farming methods that restricted wind erosion. The dust is the product what was once soil trapped within the earth through little moisture, but was torn up vigorously through plowing to create a cultivated cropland. Koppes mentioned in “Dusty Volumes: Environmental Disaster and Economic Collapse in the 1930s” that farmers “gamble for hugely profitable stakes; on ever larger farms, they produce bumper crops by using heavy amounts of machinery, chemicals, fossil fuels, and (most critical of all) irrigation water from underground aquifers that threaten to run dry (Koppes 538).” Rather than the forgotten age, the dust bowl was rather the disregarded natural disaster. Both periods wanted bigger and better things no matter the price. The expansion was a selfish conquering of the new land and their people, but benefited environmental and agricultural development. This was much like the gilded age where there was technological advancement through means of corruption.
As @Rdaigh mentions that both periods need to be “look(ed) beyond the stereotypes of the dust bowl to discover more interesting and important characteristics that only can occur when looking at a source with more ‘explicit, and more developed, theory’(The Depressing Depression).” Rather than being a subject that can be turned over with the farming technique wasn’t correct for the land, there is more to it. Such as the fact that people would make products, wheat, in overabundance. The production may solve issues at that present time, but what of the resources and labor that was once in such high demand do after it’s not required.
