The Dust Bowl, written by historian Donald Worster, is a true story about how the Great Plains of North America faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. The book describes the history of the Dust Bowl in ecological and human terms. Worster argues that there was in fact a close connection between the Dust Bowl and the Depression, that the same company produced them both, and for similar reasons. Worster used the plains people and their experience living on the plains during the Dust Bowl to give us a better idea of ​​how capitalism primarily influenced the Dust Bowl. This book focuses on the Dust Bowl and how capitalism was one of its many influences according to Worster. . Capitalism is the central idea of ​​an economic system in which commerce, industry, and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the aim of making profits in a market economy (Wikipedia). According to Worster, this idea was based solely on three concepts: nature was capital, man had an obligation to exploit nature, and the social order should encourage it. Worster argued that each...