Dust Bowl 2012: Crop Disaster, Food Shortages And Weather Extremes
by Monica Davis
American consumers are getting hit hard: food prices are increasing, gasoline prices are increasing, more counties are beiing declared disaster areas due to drought and half the nation’s on food stamps. Food, fuel and weather are contributing to a deatly triune of economic disasters whose end is no where in sight.
The nation’s farmers and ranchers are in a deadly fight for their survival, as weather related crop losses threaten their survival. As the farmers go, so goes the nation. If farmers and ranchers struggle, food prices soar, putting more stress on the nation’s financial survival and setting the natin’s economic safety net up for an expensive implosion.
Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government’s list of natural disaster areas as the nation’s agriculture chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s addition of the 218 counties means that more than half of all U.S. counties – 1,584 in 32 states – have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the vast majority of them mired in a drought that’s considered the worst in decades. MORE HERE
Not long ago, in terms of geologic time – a mere 8000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was a vast grassland with spots here and there that were wet enough to support open woodland.Much like the east-central parts of Oklahoma down to the Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex is today.Winters were generally warmer and summers about the same. Rainfall amounts were in the 12 to 15 inch range annually for the drier parts and as much as 25 inches per year in the wetter areas. It was a much more inviting, productive and human friendly land back then.That all started going away long before the Egyptians started their empire building in the Nile Valley. But even during the First Dynasty conditions were wetter and cooler than today.The change was dramatic and though it didn’t occur in an eyeblink, was still rapid and disruptive enough.There’s no guarantee we aren’t now seeing the begining stages of a similar change in America’s Breadbasket.
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