“Next step: The Great Central Californian Dust Bowl.”
Next step? Have you driven down I 5 from SF to LA lately? There are signs all along the highway pointing out that the land around you is all going to waste because of a lack of water. You know, the “write your congressman” type of signs. Unfortunately, “your congressman” IS the problem, along with the Fed Gov.
It’ll take a few years for the rootstock of the vegetation to decay away, so the dust bowl is still a couple of years off, when there is no longer anything to hold the soil in place.