China is heading for a dust bowl like the one that forced more than 2 million "Okies" to leave their land in the United States in the 1930s. But the dust bowl forming in China is much larger, and so is the population: China's migration may measure in the tens of millions.
And as a U.S. embassy report entitled "Grapes of Wrath in Inner Mongolia" noted, "unfortunately, China's 21st century 'Okies' have no California to escape to -- at least not in China."
China is heading for a dust bowl like the one that forced more than 2 million "Okies" to leave their land in the United States in the 1930s. But the dust bowl forming in China is much larger, and so is the population: China's migration may measure in the tens of millions.
ReplyDeleteAnd as a U.S. embassy report entitled "Grapes of Wrath in Inner Mongolia" noted, "unfortunately, China's 21st century 'Okies' have no California to escape to -- at least not in China."