Editing would have helped. The introductory material was good, but the scenes of dust, dust, dust was too much- important to show it, but after a while, the eyes glazed.
Desert Dancer, thanks for the notes on the music. I found myself asking "what is that" a few times.

I was in my pre-teens and teens at the time. In the Rocky Mountain portion of New Mexico, we didn't experience the devastation, but I remember the displaced coming by and asking for handy work in order to buy food.

I found myself humming, "Hard Times, Come Again No More," at times.
We are still mis-using the land- greedy farmers and developers, biofuels the latest scam putting into production land that should remain grassed, and using land that should remain devoted to food.