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For some historical perspective on the confluence between economic and environmental disaster, set against a backdrop of human nature and drama, I’d suggest “The Worst Hard Time” by Timothy Egan.
It focuses on the dust bowl years, centered on Cimarron County in the Oklahoma panhandle.
A very sobering, cautionary tale that shows that humans do indeed have the capacity to alter the climate, and it was only about 70 years ago that we did it, with often gruesome results.
A better book than Egan's "Worst Hard Times" is Donald Worster's "Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s." 1979 More ecology in the latter work, and less of the tedious "human interest" stories.
I loved those "tedious human interest" stories.
It gives you a feel for the daily life during a depression. Im my experience, it seems those are the stories the "regular joe/jane" can relate too.