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PBS - "The Dust Bowl" Documentary
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:37 am
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:37 am
I decided to subscribe to PBS app for $3.99 - There looked to be some great documentaries on their platform.
The first one I watched was "The Dust Bowl"
What a fascinating Doc! I do not know how they got all of the film footage from 1908 (I'm sure a lot of it was new but they just made it look old) but it was interesting.
I did not know much about The Dust Bowl. Of course I have heard about it and read about it a little but my god what a miserable fricking time to be alive having to deal with that shite. It just looked and sounded miserable.
Now, back then they were hitting record highs that made this summer feel like fall. It's 100% proof that the weather works in cycles.
Also, the Governrment came in and bought all of the farmer's cattle for $16 each - Then, while the entire country was basically starving to death, the farmers thought that they were selling the cattle to feed America. NOPE. The Government bought all of the cattle up and then bulldozed them into a ditch and shot them all to death then buried them. Why? I have no idea but that that was interesting.
Anyways, for those who are looking for something interesting to watch and learn, I highly suggest this documentary.
The first one I watched was "The Dust Bowl"
What a fascinating Doc! I do not know how they got all of the film footage from 1908 (I'm sure a lot of it was new but they just made it look old) but it was interesting.
I did not know much about The Dust Bowl. Of course I have heard about it and read about it a little but my god what a miserable fricking time to be alive having to deal with that shite. It just looked and sounded miserable.
Now, back then they were hitting record highs that made this summer feel like fall. It's 100% proof that the weather works in cycles.
Also, the Governrment came in and bought all of the farmer's cattle for $16 each - Then, while the entire country was basically starving to death, the farmers thought that they were selling the cattle to feed America. NOPE. The Government bought all of the cattle up and then bulldozed them into a ditch and shot them all to death then buried them. Why? I have no idea but that that was interesting.
Anyways, for those who are looking for something interesting to watch and learn, I highly suggest this documentary.
This post was edited on 9/20/23 at 10:40 am
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Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:39 am to FLTech
That was a good one.
They used clips of that in Interstellar.
They used clips of that in Interstellar.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:41 am to FLTech
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I do not know how they got all of the film footage from 1908 (I'm sure a lot of it was new but they just made it look old) but it was interesting.
Dust Bowl was in the 30s. Cameras were prevalent. Especially for something like this.
It was an absolute storm of natural causes of drought and human caused terrible farming practices.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:43 am to FLTech
Let me get.... since it's PBS....Racism and global warming?
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:57 am to FLTech
quote:
The Dust Bowl
Was because of greed.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 11:09 am to FLTech
You do realize that the 1908 number you used as a date for Dust Bowl was 20 plus years before it actually happened. Footage therefore would be more than capable by that time.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 11:27 am to hogcard1964
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Let me get.... since it's PBS....Racism
I recently tried to watch 2 shows on PBS. One was about nature in Arkansas...I thought cool, this will be fun to watch. And you guessed it, it turned into a show about racial injustice 150 years ago. The was about South Carolina (IIRC) and sure enough more racism.
Can't we just have a show about the natural beauty and outdoors in this country without making it about race?
Posted on 9/20/23 at 11:34 am to FLTech
The Grapes of Wrath was a terrific movie. Had one of my favorite character actors...John Carradine.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 12:38 pm to REB BEER
quote:
Can't we just have a show about the natural beauty and outdoors in this country without making it about race?
I think you're confusing who is making this about race
Posted on 9/20/23 at 12:40 pm to REB BEER
Agreed
They have to interject race, or they'd have absolutely nothing to talk about.
I saw the same shows you did about Arkansas and South Carolina. It was insane. Alabama's was worse.
They have to interject race, or they'd have absolutely nothing to talk about.
I saw the same shows you did about Arkansas and South Carolina. It was insane. Alabama's was worse.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 12:47 pm to FLTech
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In summer 1933, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration tried to boost the wholesale price of agricultural produce through an artificial scarcity initiative, in which crops were plowed up or left to rot and six million pigs were killed and discarded.[2]
Not saying what they did was right, but they were trying to do the best they can. Lots of experiments were done and many were bad ideas.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 12:53 pm to Alltheway Tigers!
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artificial scarcity initiative…
Sounds like what the Soviets were doing in Ukraine in the same time period. The result was mass starvation.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 12:55 pm to The Boat
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It was an absolute storm of natural causes of drought and human caused terrible farming practices.
But if you study archeology and geology there were similar instance in the 1700s and the 1500 and over the last 800 years.
"The paleoclimatic data suggest a 1930smagnitude Dust Bowl drought occurred once or twice
a century over the past 300–400 years, and a decadallength drought once every 500 years. In addition,
paleoclimatic data suggest a drought regime change
about 800 years ago, which was likely due to some
change in the base state of the climate"
LINK
Posted on 9/20/23 at 12:57 pm to FLTech
The Dust Bowl was not in 1908.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 3:00 pm to Nosevens
ok. I do realize that but when they were showing footage in the doc, it would show stuff explaining 1908 (when the footage they were showing occurred)
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