Woody Guthrie Dust Cain't Kill Me

"Dust Cain't Kill Me" by Woody Guthrie

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Music

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• dust
• bowl
• depression
• Woody
• Guthrie

[hinasakurabestfriend]

where did you get these clips?

[DVanDeusen]

@hinasakurabestfriend From the 1975 documentary: "Brother Can You Spare a Dime."

[journeyer58]

This song is especially poignant in the light of the coming ecological disaster. Unless the power elite get it through their heads that they cannot continue the unabashed use of fossil fuels, we will suffer a worse fate than that of the 30's people. I am unapologetic in my belief about the need for alternative fuel sources and the fact that they are already available to man, but the power elite refuses to accede to the need for them. We must declare for the sake of the future the need for them.

[DVanDeusen]

Well said, @journeyer58. 

[SMNONA100]

My parents were farmers in the Southwest and lived through the Dust Bowl years. Twenty years later in the 1950's, my generation experienced another cycle, when great clouds of dust boiled out of the horizon and engulfed everything in their path. Families waited out the wind in rooms hazy with dust and darkened at mid day by that part of the earth that had risen to block the sun. When the storm finally passed, it left a strange and awesome peace, and dunes of sand in a changed landscape- and us.

[SMNONA100]

@GrigoriZhukov You are right, Grigori. Humanity has always lived at the cliff's edge, held back by the threads of fortune and an instinct for survival. I believe that we are here today because we are called to a future destiny. It is knowledge that must step us back from extinction, and guide us forward. Knowledge, reason, and love. Don't you think?

[ThereAreNoUnionThugs]

@journeyer58

They make all these arguments like "its not efficient". They mean in its current form, and they mean "we will ruin you politically if you support its development"

All new technologies have problems at first; robotic workers were less efficient and less profitable the first 50 years of their development. The elite were willing to support that, with our taxes, because it killed our unions, 'stead of de-monopolizing energy.

This time we got to push it through faster

[plasmaelemental]

he is a god he is immortal

[GrigoriZhukov]

@journeyer58 and I'll be relieve when people realize this change is inevitable adn nothing we do will make it worse or come on faster...species die off because. Homo Sapiens has been on the ragged edge of extinction for some time now.

[maynardcat]

First time hearing this song, and the clips from the 1930's dust bowl blended right in with the song. The 1930's dust bowl really caused a lot of hardship on many people.