Could the Dust Bowl of the 30s happen again?
5/5/202654 min
The Dirty Thirties might seem like the distant past but according to IDEAS contributor and professor Evan Fraser now is the time to dust off the lessons about what worked to save farmers and agriculture. The confluence of drought, scorching temperatures and terrifying storms was devastating for farm families forced to abandon their land. Fraser argues the Dust Bowl should serve as a warning of compounding crises that lie ahead. But he adds it can also be a guide to solutions that could help us muddle through as the world lurches into another chapter of environmental, political and economic upheaval.
Guests in this episode:
Evan Fraser is a geography professor and director of Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph.
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is a distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University.
Robert McLeman is a professor of geography and environmental studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Nahlah Ayed· Host0:33
Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nahlah Ayed. Some call it Ruination Day, April the 14th, the day Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865, the day the Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912, and the day in 1935 when the noontime sun was blotted out by a towering cloud of dust that blasted and blanketed the Great Plains of the United States.
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:04
We looked in the north and thought it was a blue norther coming. Such a huge black cloud, just looked like smoke out of a train stack or something.
Nahlah Ayed· Host1:14
It was Black Sunday, a dust storm of seemingly biblical proportions. It was described by some as a land tsunami or a dust blizzard, the most infamous episode of the 1930s Dust Bowl