Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl—History or Preview?

25 Jul, 2012

The Dust BowlDue out this November from PBS is Dust Bowl, a new doc­u­men­tary from the leg­endary doc­u­men­tar­ian, Ken Burns. The video trailer below shows some of the haunt­ing images of the Great Plains dur­ing the Dust Bowl period of the 1930′s.

With drought, ris­ing com­mod­ity food prices and cli­mate change debate vying for our atten­tion in today’s head­lines, one has to won­der if we are see­ing a repeat of history.

The Dust Bowl is now clearly seen as a man-made dis­as­ter through the lens of his­tory and hind­sight. More cur­rent images of a mas­sive dust storm over­tak­ing the city of Phoenix, Arizona kin­dle the fear of a repeat of this catastrophe.

The intent of pre­sent­ing this trailer here is not to gen­er­ate fur­ther fear, but to call to atten­tion these facts:

  • The Dust Bowl dis­as­ter was man-made.
  • Since it was man-made a recur­rence is man-preventable.
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