i know you're going to find this difficult to understand but trees create weather systems and can bring water into a biome. the desert expanded massively in the chinese interior after the communist takeover but you don't know about it because google earth didn't exist and there are no historic photos that you have access too--but it's obvious as fuck if you know what you're looking at and if you read the historic records. this is an attempt at fixing that by bringing moisture back to the inlands.   no, it's to bring more water inland. forests create microclimates and bring more water into the overall system. everything you think you know about forests is propaganda from the timber cartels who lie their asses off.
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