Combating desertification

From Unfocusgroup.org

The idea is to make the entire world habitable by putting lots of effort into combating desertification, and planting lots of trees. Irrigation will be a bummer, but many desert countries have lots of oil, which is good.

• Cut canals from sea into the desert. Build inner lakes.
• These would be saline as they are sourced from the sea; however, we can use solar-heat-mirror desalination (reflect sun's heat to boil water & distil).
• Irrigate land & grow forests.
• Transpiration from trees would form clouds, and would rain
• Canals can criss-cross the country with water.

observations

• Most desert countries have energy reserves that can be used to cut the canals.
• Manpower is cheap to cut the lakes
• A version of this seems to be happening in Mali, where they are re-cutting dead rivers for irrigation.

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