So why cant we do this

[Figarosmom]

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Where do you think this should be done?

[Figarosmom]

3. The desert

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. yeah which one, and for what?

[Figarosmom]

5. How about the Mojave

To combat the heat and loss of water in Vegas or around California to help combat the fires.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. How would planting trees, which require water -- a lot of water, in a desert -- help combat loss of water and an

increase in fires?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. It takes money and manpower to go for 70 years

We would never get there.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Since there is no pubic welfare or public good any more, it would never happen here. The oligarchs would just rather mov

to another country than spend anything here.

[soldierant]

8. We have deserts in the US,

but we don't have any desert that looks like the Sahara, ot like the image at the header of the video. (Even the Sahara doesn't 100% look like the Sahara as we think of it.) Our deserts are mostly, maybe all, thriving, with flora and fauna Even the Great Sand Dunes, which does have a substantial (but compared to the Sahara, small) area of just sand everywhere you look - but it also has portions which are thriving with flora and fauna, including friendly skinks. It is protected because its climate is unusual. I have not been to White Sands in New Mexico, which does look like the Sahara but white, It is also protected, it's a National Park, and I suspect that's for good reason.

We don't have enough farmers, nor enough labor, to farm the farmland we have. Adding arable land at this point doesn't sound productive to me. China, on the other hand, has a large population which could benefit from reclamation.