The article “Scaling the Dust Bowl” by Geoff Cunfer he explores the question of if the increase of improper farming in the midwest in the 1920-30s helped create the situations for the Dust Bowl. Going through past recorded storms, maps of the locations of farms and intensive farming, as well as personal accounts he comes to the conclusion that dust storms in the area are normal and because of the bad drought this one just happened to be really bad, not as a consequence of human activity. This environmental lense of history reminds me of an article article I read about how the roman agrarian economy failed due to a long period of drought that destabilized the region and led to the fall of the Roman Empire. \u00a0It also reminds me of Cronon’s writing on the urban theory of Chicago, where jessicabode <\/a>summed up his theory, “One argument that Cronon proposes is that Chicago\u2019s development happened not just because of its location but because of the people that lived in Chicago.” This seems exactly opposite of Cunfer’s theory here, where it’s nature that deemed this disaster happen, not people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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