Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Blues

Woody Guthrie - "Talking Dust Bowl Blues"

Dust Bowl Blues

By cutting down our forests for timber and drilling, you don't just kill that land, you also kill everything around it. The Dust Bowl was caused not only by this, but by severe drought, and you know what climate change is doing? Look at the fires on both coasts that are getting rose every year. During the Dust Bowl, between 1930 and 1940, about 3.5 million people moved out of the Plains states. Nearly a third of all migrants were professional or white-collar workers. More than 500,000 Americans