These images look like they’re from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, but they were actually taken this year

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