The Worstest Hard Time

I think we may have the Dirty Thirties beat. The Dust Bowl only enveloped about 100 million acres across the Great Plains. Climate change impacts the entire globe. We're in the Carbon Bowl and the storm keeps rising.

I read Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning "The Worst Hard Time" about the environmental, social and economic devastation caused by uprooting the prairie grasses in a region that suffered cyclical droughts. Yet the hardship he describes seems minimal and bounded when compared to a world that will experience extreme temperatures, stronger deluges and longer droughts. Everywhere. I think we'll harken back to the good old days when we can be Okies and flee to California.