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For this blog, I will be adressing both Scaling the Dust Bowl by Cunfer, as well as Environmental disaster by Koppes. In Koppes work Environmental Disasters, he mentions two books very heavily, one was written by Worster, the other by Bonnifield. He argues that both have a great insight of how the Dust Bowl was created, at first he states what a great, and new insight Worster offers by stating, as Gravity21 explains, “Worster believes the Dust Bowl was the creation of man and their belief in capitalism”. He supports this statement by qouting Worster, and mentioning how the land the farmers moved to was not meant for wheat, however, since wheat was such a big commodity, the land would be made into farm land at all cost. Where as Bonnifield, argues that capitalism wasn’t the thing to blame. It was the soil, and Nature in general that was to blame. In the end Koppes states how Bonnifields book was, poorly written and didn’t have enough evidence to support his theory but, instead chose to side with Worsters book, whom he said was written very well, and provided a clear and concrete theory that he supported very well.

As for Scaling the Dust Bowl, by Cunfer. He argues the opposite, stating how Worster didn’t have very good evidence to support his idea, the reason being was because, he only took primary sources from two locations, and although these places were the heart land of where the Dust Bowl occurred, it would have been even more beneficial to have used GSI to calculate more data on even more locations, which would have allowed his to support his thesis even more. As Gparker77 states from our last reading, “He talks about how historians are given a new way of examining things through and explore. The field offers a large opening to new studies and making new ways of collecting data”. This statement gives a great example of what the article Scaling a Dust Bowl was trying to prove, which is we need to start collecting and using data to help support History.