A carbon tax in 1937 could have prevented this disaster. We should have listened to Arrhenius.
27 Jan 1937 – 500,000 HOMELESS Flood-Ravaged Mississippi and O…
A carbon tax in 1937 could have prevented this disaster. We should have listened to Arrhenius.
27 Jan 1937 – 500,000 HOMELESS Flood-Ravaged Mississippi and O…
It did give Johnny Cash a story to write a song about.
This week, in an effort to finally shake the tune which seemed to be conspiring against me, I decided to research the background and motivation of Johnny Cash when he wrote and recorded “Five Feet High and Risin'” in October 1959.
As I had suspected, it was the result of Johnny Cash watching his parents struggle to take advantage of a 1935 “New Deal” farm program that provided them with 20 acres of land and a 5 room house. Just as everything was beginning to improve, the Great Flood of January 1937 completely devistated the Cash family. Left only with determination Johnny’s mother and father had to begin again with even less than before.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/02/01/691762/-Economic-Hardship-How-High-rsquo-s-The-Water-Mama-A-story-of-Rain-Fame-and-Gain#