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Let them try it in Australia first. The whole continent is mostly desert (hi Mad Max!) and just a few cities on the coast.

Or at least if they can't terraform the desert, let them terraform "the bushland" first: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush#/media/File:View_...

This is egregious considering that humans have actually terraformed forests into farms [1], and now 1/3 of the arable land is desertified [2]. How about terraforming it back into arable land by regenerative permaculture [3]? Start there first!

1. https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

2. https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/fores...

3. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-h...




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