Dust Bowl farm in the Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas.
- Date Range
- 1934 – 1940
- Title
- Dust Bowl farm in the Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas.
- What occurred
- The dust bowl can be described as severe dust storms from farmers lacking ecological understanding of the way the grasslands worked. The result was 100,000,000 acres of grassland topsoil turning into dust from excessive deep plowing and over farming. Very reminiscent of the readings from Wednesday as this is a good example why capitalist efficiency and growth is not always an improvement to the land and the peoples wellbeing. This unregulated growth without any semblance of sustainability compares it self really well with production of meats in how waste of massive industry was not yet a component in consideration when expanding growing industries from the boom of new available technologies.
- Location
- Dalhart, TX
- Image Citation
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8b32396/
- Student name(s)
- Julien Evans