From gwg2@cornell.eduFri May 24 21:47:52 1996 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 17:09:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gilbert W. Gillespie Jr." To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Of droughts and dust bowls I thank Willie Lockeretz for his remarks and add a couple of references for those who are interested. I especially recommend Chapter 12-14 & the epilogue of Worster's wonderful book in which he writes about the hubris of technological fixes to the problem of wind erosion and people's short memories. I will be teaching an environmental sociology course in the Cornell summer session again this year and had debated choosing a different book for my section on agriculture and the environment. I decided to keep it and it may prove to be especially relevant this year. The Parfit article has some great photographs by Dorthea Lang and other Farm Security Agency photographers. Worster, Donald. 1979. The Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press. Parfit, Michael. 1989. "The Dust Bowl." Smithsonian 20(3)(June 1989):44-56. **************************************************************************** Gil Gillespie voice: 607-255-1675 Department of Rural Sociology (& fax: 607-254-2896 Division of Nutritional Sciences ) e-mail: gwg2@cornell.edu 439 Warren Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-7801 USA The transition to sustainability is like a bend in the road. It will be the end of the road only if we fail to negotiate the turn. ****************************************************************************