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re: If an event like The Dust Bowl happened today, what would be the reaction?
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:27 am to Rebel
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:27 am to Rebel
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Would there be mass panic? Would certain people blame other people?
Wiki The Dust Bowl
Sometimes the weather/climate just does weird things.
You think the dust bowl was just caused by the weather doing weird things?
It was caused by poor farming techniques. It was a man-made disaster.
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Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:27 am to Rebel
Screaming at the clouds
Complaining about the dust on social media
Complaining about the dust on social media
Posted on 7/27/23 at 10:29 am to Rebel
Hot take: as a global warming skeptic, the Dust Bowl was a man made weather phenomenon, but it had nothing to do with industry, carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, today’s bogeymen.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:29 am to Rebel
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Sometimes the climate just fluctuates. In fact, I will insist it has always fluctuated.
While you didn't state your point in the OP you made a very poor argument for what is likely your point.
1. you are making the same mistake here that a lot of people make consistently, you are mixing up weather and climate. While the dust bowl drought was unusually long it was still weather versus climate change.
2. the root cause vs contributory factor is correct but loses most of its import when the contributory factor is such a significant factor in the end result. If it weren't for man's intervention the plains would have suffered far less and would have bounced back far quicker.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:29 am to Rebel
Can’t be worse than democrat run cities.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:34 am to JackieTreehorn
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Hell they basically confirmed aliens are visiting earth but people are more interested with the Kardashians.
Convince me they are not the same thing.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:38 am to Rebel
People would remain and expect the government to bail them out instead of leaving
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:41 am to RogerTheShrubber
The dust would cloud up solar panels and electric power would decrease. Windmills would take a beating with all the soil in air and need to shut down. Oil and gas would save the day
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:46 am to Corinthians420
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It was caused by poor farming techniques
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The eight-year drought that plagued the central U.S. in the 1930s, immortalized in The Grapes of Wrath, wracked the Great Plains with devastating dust storms and affected two thirds of this country as well as parts of Mexico and Canada. Paramount to determining why the conditions were so severe and long-lasting is discerning what caused the drought to begin with. Findings published today in the journal Science suggest that unusual sea surface temperatures could be to blame
LINK
The farming techniques just made the dust worse, the drought was the cause of crop failures
This post was edited on 7/27/23 at 11:48 am
Posted on 7/27/23 at 11:47 am to wileyjones
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government would impose a new tax
and the total figure would be in trillions, not billions
Posted on 7/27/23 at 12:03 pm to Cheese Grits
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With modern corporate farming, this has only gotten worse.
What’s corporate farming?
What practices that contributed to the dust bowl have gotten worse?
Posted on 7/27/23 at 12:05 pm to East Coast Band
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Blamed on
A. White Supremacy
B. Trump policy
C. Climate change
D. Maga Republicans
Blamed on
A. Wokeness
B. Biden policy
C. Green technology
D. Socialist Democrats
Posted on 7/27/23 at 12:07 pm to Cuz413
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If we (as a society) cared for the farmlands of America, we would reintroduce ruminants to the grasslands. Enact rotational grazing and stop the current farming practices that are contributing to the death of the once most fertile lands on Earth.
Tell us how to fix agriculture in America so the dust bowl doesn’t happen again
This post was edited on 7/27/23 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 7/27/23 at 12:48 pm to Midtiger farm
Tear down the Mississippi River levee and let the chips fall as they lay. Move all of us to Wyoming and other states with large undeveloped areas.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 1:02 pm to Rebel
People would be claiming it was all made up. Part of a conspiracy for more government intervention.
This post was edited on 7/27/23 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 7/27/23 at 1:31 pm to el Gaucho
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don’t even believe in global warming
Correct. The words “believe in” are telling. Religion to y’all
This post was edited on 7/27/23 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 7/27/23 at 1:46 pm to JackieTreehorn
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Hell they basically confirmed aliens are visiting earth but people are more interested with the Kardashians.
No. They told you they confirmed aliens are visiting earth.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 1:47 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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The farming techniques just made the dust worse, the drought was the cause of crop failures
This. Severe drought… the likes that had not been seen before or after Caused the dust bowl. Sure, it was learned that other farming techniques could have been used to mitigate the impacts of the drought. But it’s disingenuous to say the dust bowl was man made.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 3:09 pm to Rebel
Pretty sure it would be blamed on MAGA, then Joe Biden will pass a bill called "fixing the dust bowl" and give all the money he prints to Trans in Ukraine
Posted on 7/27/23 at 3:58 pm to Rebel
quote:Hedge funds and private equity firms would buy up the remaining independent farms for pennies on the dollar, then collect trillion dollar bailouts from the taxpayers while the ex-farmers and their families beg on the streets and die in the gutters.
If an event like The Dust Bowl happened today, what would be the reaction?
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