The US Is Getting a Disaster Salad With Dust Bowl Dressing

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was a devastating but temporary confluence of human cluelessness and natural accident. It was also a demonstration of humanity’s ability to wreck an environment when we really set our minds to it. Thanks to that dubious superpower, we’re now living in a world of more and stronger natural disasters — including something that could soon look a lot like another Dust Bowl.