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==From the Dust Bowl…== | ==From the Dust Bowl…== | ||
===Introduction to the movie <i>The plow that broke the plains</i>=== | ===Introduction to the movie <i>The plow that broke the plains</i>=== | ||
“On Thursday, the 17th of December at 5 p.m, the plow will break the plain again. | “On Thursday, the 17th of December at 5 p.m, the plow will break the plain again. | ||
<br>Again, the native American civilisations of the Great Plains will have been purged from the grasslands along herds of buffalos. | <br>Again, the native American civilisations of the Great Plains will have been purged from the grasslands along herds of buffalos. | ||
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===A bound in time between two agricultural crisis=== | ===A bound in time between two agricultural crisis=== | ||
[[File:SPD1220_document-almond-RB-3D.jpg|thumb|The printed matter that was filled in the Almond box]] | |||
One century ago, the “Dust Bowl” was forming on a vast strip of land cutting the United States vertically, from Montana to Texas. Intensive farming encouraged by the State led to erosion of the soil and blizzards of dust burying houses and lungs. F. D. Roosevelt’s government answered to this crisis with the Soil Erosion Service in 1933, though no amount of subsidies were sufficient enough to counter it. Unsustainable farming technics prevailed, helped by the so-called Green Revolution; paving the way for industrial farming as we know it today. | One century ago, the “Dust Bowl” was forming on a vast strip of land cutting the United States vertically, from Montana to Texas. Intensive farming encouraged by the State led to erosion of the soil and blizzards of dust burying houses and lungs. F. D. Roosevelt’s government answered to this crisis with the Soil Erosion Service in 1933, though no amount of subsidies were sufficient enough to counter it. Unsustainable farming technics prevailed, helped by the so-called Green Revolution; paving the way for industrial farming as we know it today. | ||