These photographs look like they came straight out of the Great Depression, but they’re actually from this year. This harrowing video shows a bleak, drought-stricken future for California farmers and the United States’ breadbasket unless we taken serious action (including putting a stop to fracking, and we should probably stop watering lawns and golf courses while we’re at it).
I’m not kidding – it’s so dry that farmers are running out of tumbleweed to feed their livestock. That means we’re talking *really* dry, folks.
Courtesy of The New Yorker
Photos by Matt Black and Ed Kashi