• FloridaBoi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Attempting to look this up yesterday and even looking up something like “deaths caused by Dust Bowl” yields unrelated results

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Isn't it weird that we know everyone who even sneezed too strong during the Holodomor but we can't find a single Dust Bowl death? Odd! Odd odd odd.

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        There's very little evidence that the dust bowl, or the great depression generally caused significant excess death. To be sure, there was several thousand likely excess deaths, but the death rates did not fluctuate much compared to the 1920s or 1940s.

        Here's a recent study on the mortality rates in American cities during the great depression. https://jech.bmj.com/content/66/5/410.abstract?sid=5c77edc9-6cfa-4154-be20-8272b1ca03b4