{"id":875,"date":"2026-08-18T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:09:37","slug":"this-week-in-nation-history-how-not-to-make-a-dust-bowl-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"This Week in &#8216;Nation&#8217; History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul><li>Politics<\/li><li>July 27, 2013<\/li><\/ul><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse<\/h1><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: How Not to Make a Dust Bowl Worse<\/h1><h2><p>The current drought in the Southwest bears echoes of the 1930s, when <em>Nation<\/em> writers and illustrators evoked what it was like to have \u201cnice hot dust in your nose, eyes, and throat.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=869\">The Rats Terrorizing Everyone in Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>July 27, 2013<\/time>\n<div>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-871\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fad0dccaab42473f0f64bba38a123d39.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>This week\u2019s cover story by Sasha Abramsky, \u201cDust Bowl Blues,\u201d explores the severe drought that has afflicted the American Southwest for the past few years, devastating crops, communities, and climates. \u201cJust like in the days of the Dust Bowl,\u201d Abramsky writes, \u201ca way of life is under threat here, as are the livelihoods of millions of people.\u201d\n<p>In the summer of 1937, with the original Dust Bowl and the second wave of the Great Depression in full effect, <em>The Nation<\/em> published four features, once each month, by the radical cartoonist and painter William Gropper, who, using Works Progress Administration funds, went on a tour around the country to document the resilience with which ordinary people were facing those twin man-made disasters. Gropper\u2019s simple, evocative sketches and crisp paragraphs have the same effect as more famous artifacts of creative reportage from the American West of the late 1930s, like John Steinbeck\u2019s novels or Woody Guthrie\u2019s songs: that of making the reader or listener feel dusty just by reading or listening.\n<p>His first <em>Nation <\/em>dispatch that summer, \u201c\u201d (July 3, 1937), derived from the same visit to the Ohio city that produced his most famous painting, <em>Youngstown Strike<\/em>\u2014recording the tumultuous scene at a major labor walkout led by the Congress of Industrial Organizations. But it is his August page, \u201c,\u201d that provides a remarkably poignant and sympathetic account of what the Southwest was like in those years:\n<blockquote>\n<p>When the wind blows, you get a blow of nice hot dust in your nose, eyes, and throat. The landscape is simple\u2014sky and sand for miles. At night you can get some sleep with a wet cloth over your face, or if you\u2019re prepared with a mask you can manage to get by until you get used to it. In Elkhart, Kansas, I saw a farmer plowing. No sooner did he pass with the plow than the dust blew over and covered up the earth as if nothing had happened. I asked him if he got any crops, and he said, \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cThen why plow?\u201d And he said, \u201cBeen doin\u2019 it fer years; it\u2019s a habit now,\u201d and went on with his plowing.\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Trump\u2019s Loose Grip on Reality Could Sink the Navy\u2019s Ships<\/span>\n\n                Trump\u2019s Loose Grip on Reality Could Sink the Navy\u2019s Ships\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJeet Heer <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Democrats Really, Really, Really Don&#8217;t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising<\/span>\n\n                Democrats Really, Really, Really Don&#8217;t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nChris Lehmann <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Adjuncting Until the End of Time<\/span>\n\n                Adjuncting Until the End of Time\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nMaria Adelmann <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta<\/span>\n\n                The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nStephen Zunes <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another blurb tells a story that any American reader, thanks to Steinbeck and Guthrie, can relate to\u2014though Gropper, because he is using a weekly magazine and not a novel or a song, manages it with perhaps more immediacy:\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than once on the road I\u2019ve seen families packing their belongings in old Fords and leaving the old homestead. Many of them, I\u2019ve been told, are migrating to California\u2014not because they want to, but because they have been evicted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-872\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/06c850bffa9fad34673bdde6b2b905a8.jpg\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/06c850bffa9fad34673bdde6b2b905a8.jpg 615w, https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/06c850bffa9fad34673bdde6b2b905a8-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>* * *\n<p><em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s next and, until Abramsky\u2019s piece this week, last article about the Dust Bowl was written by Kunigunde Duncan (a pseudonym for the Kansan writer Flora Isely) in 1939. In \u201c,\u201d Duncan wrote about how farmers on the high plains were using technology and grit to reconstitute the soil and finally beat back the dust storms of the previous six years. As Abramsky details the ways in which human-caused global climate change have contributed to and exacerbated the present drought in the Southwest, Duncan reported that the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was similarly attributable to human actions:\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Dust Bowler, seeking means of combating these terrible conditions, went first into causes and found that he was having to fight more than super-temperatures, water shortage, and constant wind-whipped dust. He was having to fight the mistakes of his predecessors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Duncan blamed railroad tycoons and the settlers they brought in by the hundreds, who forced the land to produce crops from the East; cattle ranchers who overgrazed the prairie; and the World War I demand for bread which led farmers to replace drought-resistant native buffalo grass with fields and fields of wheat. Her description of the disaster that ensued has echoes of Gropper\u2019s\u2014and Steinbeck\u2019s, too:\n<blockquote>\n<p>The high plains have never had abundant rainfall. But when the annual precipitation of from fourteen to twenty inches decreased to from eight to fourteen, the situation became acute.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-873\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68149d38ca5bab92f981d43a433a90d5.jpg\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68149d38ca5bab92f981d43a433a90d5.jpg 615w, https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/68149d38ca5bab92f981d43a433a90d5-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>It might be worth noting that the average rainfall in Lubbock, Texas, the town profiled in Abramsky\u2019s \u201cDust Bowl Blues\u201d this week, enjoyed a grand total of 11.43 inches of precipitation in 2012, according to the National Weather Service. In 2011, it had less than 6 inches. In 1937, it had 22.25 inches. Duncan continued:\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDusters\u201d began to boil up and shut out the sun, and everywhere the question was asked, \u201cWhat shall we do?\u201d It was a question that remained unanswered for many months while gas engines refused to run and locomotives crawled through a springless, viewless land\u2014a land where people live with windows weather-stripped tightly with adhesive tape to exclude the penetrating silt; where wet sheets were hung above beds and about the walls to save the lives of the old, the ill, and the new-born\u2026where a weird purplish sun guided the funeral procession of those who had died of dust pneumonia.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *\n<p>Abramsky reports that not only is the present drought crisis in the Southwest, to some extent, a human-caused phenomenon, it continues to be exacerbated by a broken American political system.\n<blockquote>\n<p>Congress has an opportunity to address this crisis through the farm bill, which is currently the topic of robust debate in Washington. On July 11, with help from the powerful agribusiness lobby, the House passed legislation giving large farms the ability to buy \u201cshallow loss insurance,\u201d which would guarantee up to 90 percent of their income\u2014thus providing a perverse incentive for agribusiness to try to cultivate land manifestly unsuited to the crops in question.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two years ago, as it became apparent that this would be an especially contentious episode in the perpetual drama that is the farm bill\u2019s quinquennial renewal, the ecology writer and activist Daniel Imhoff wrote in <em>The Nation <\/em>about the prickly questions embedded in the debate\u2014and, like Abramsky, connected the dots between agricultural legislation, drought and climate change:\n<blockquote>\n<p>Generous crop insurance programs and increasing global demand for animal feed and biofuels have triggered an aggressive expansion of farming and ranching activities into marginally productive areas. Water tables are plummeting and aquifers are being depleted. Soil erosion is on the rise. Agriculture contributes to greenhouse gases, loss of biodiversity, chemical runoff in waterways, compromised animal welfare and food contamination. Farm bill conservation programs could be the only thing that stands between us and another Dust Bowl, collapsed watershed or imperiled species.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure enough, the farm bill passed by the House earlier this month\u2014in addition to stripping out the food-stamps program, thereby sundering the traditional farm-bill coalition in two\u2014disconnected conservation compliance from crop insurance payouts, essentially declawing the bill\u2019s already insufficient environmental-protection provisions. If the new Dust Bowl gets any worse, we may have to start looking for the next William Gropper.\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-874\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f0d0ea3a74195d3c89d27700a6895e37.jpg\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f0d0ea3a74195d3c89d27700a6895e37.jpg 615w, https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f0d0ea3a74195d3c89d27700a6895e37-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=867\">How Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores<\/a><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\n                Submit a correction\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Send a letter to the editor\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Reprints &amp; permissions\n            \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><span> Stephen Zunes<\/span>Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. 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