Eli5 Why can’t we just slowly plan trees out in the desert to turn it into a forest?
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Because deserts aren’t an inherently bad thing. [In fact, that only reason that the Amazon rainforests exist is because of the Sahara deserts.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygulQJoIe2Y) Even if we could easily and cheaply convert a desert to a forest, we would be wiping out all of the life that has adapted to live in that environment.
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