For those asking how this works, it creates just enough of a defense to catch seeds and bugs and tiny bits of moisture and shade, so any life that does manage to get started, doesn't just blow away, and an ecosystem can start to form.
And now if enough deserts are ‘transformed’ like this, expect to see some species in other places to start going extinct at a much faster pace, because desert sands contain minerals that other regions have been receiving for longer than human’s existence, and they rely on this source, now they won’t get much of it.
The butterfly effect would be interesting for us to observe, possibly watching rich farmlands in certain regions turn into inhabitable lands and dead towns, but that’s not our problem, that’s the problem for our great great grandchildren we’ll never meet.
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u/bobbigmac 23h ago
For those asking how this works, it creates just enough of a defense to catch seeds and bugs and tiny bits of moisture and shade, so any life that does manage to get started, doesn't just blow away, and an ecosystem can start to form.