Dust Bowl of the 21st Century?

Farms were abandoned. Crops were devastated...families were torn apart. The Dust Bowl of the thirties occurred at the same time as the great depression. When I saw this farm...I wondered if we were headed towards this in the 21st century. With the severe economic downturn, many farm families are beginning to give up their generations of heritage to move to areas where they can move into the workforce and eek out a living only to find once moved...no work is available.

Farmland is being overworked, tearing away the topsoil layer due to the need to continuously increase yields. This straining of the land plus the financial strains may lead to another Dust Bowl. It seems as though this family had hopes of turning things around...renovation had begun on the old house as seen by the front side of the building, only to give up and move on.

I truly hope I am wrong about this one...maybe over exaggerating the crisis...tell me I am wrong. I don't want to go to bed tonight with this vision of America approaching the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Hopefully I will wake up tomorrow with a better outlook.