Is there

[james_davis_nicoll]

Dust Bowl denialism?

Comments

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

I doubt there's much in the way of denying that dust storms happened, but I'm sure there are people that don't believe that human activity contributed to it in any way.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

What's more plausible—that free-market agricultural policies created an ecological and economic catastrophe, or that the Earth passed through the dust-filled tail of a gigantic comet?

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Is that argument an actual thing that has been said? Outside of the pages of the Onion?

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

The ridiculous hypothesis is my own invention; I do not know if prior art exists.

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

The Year When Stardust Fell

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

I deny that the "Dust Bowl" was actually a bowl!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Duh! Of course there's no actual bowl. The Dust Bowl is an annual football game played in Phoenix, Arizona.

No it ain't.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Denial that farming practices helped cause it, maybe.

Now, Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large US city,
there's a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa,
for an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart.
You can't build on it; you can't grow anything in it. The government
says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on,
Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens.
They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to
God.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Mars Needs Women.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

I deny that there is.

Yes: I practice Dust Bowl denialism denialism.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

I think your denial is fake. Yes: I am a Dust Bowl denialism denialist denialist.

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

These actors have been sacked.

--Hawk

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasty....

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

There's a well-known libertarian economist whose name I will not specify because my memory is so vague about the conversation we had, bu he certainly denied something about the dustbowl. Was it the human origin of it? But he's a compulsive contrarian and probably cannot be held to anything he says.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I can form a hypothesis about who that is likely to have been.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

But which well-known contrarian libertarian economist?

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Why, there CERTAINLY could not be more than one such in this world!

--Dave, or is it that they all sound alike to me?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can, but I think you can understand my reluctance to actually name him since I don't remember the conversation well.

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

Oh Jeezus. Me too.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

No; but there is Dust Bowl slash.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Pairing the Dust Bowl with what other natural disaster and/or metaphorical entity?

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

To achieve traditional romantic style, it should be something opposite. A hurricane perhaps?

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Dust Bowl flees to Russia, shacks up with General Winter?

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

It was Ben Hawkins.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I haven't observed it, but I can logically infer its existence. After all, it's not as if climates just change, therefore...

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

And before that, there had to have been denialists around the erosion of the Greek Isles by overgrazing.

To the extent that humanity cannot control its own numbers and activities, we are still in the realm of animals.