Maowusu was grassland as recently as 218 BC and has variously been a marsh, a desert, a plain, and so on in recent epochs. Greening it is mostly an anti-desertification strategy to keep it from growing and let it re-develop into pastoral land again. It’s small and hasn’t been a desert for very long to begin with.
Cool. That makes sense and figured it’d be something like that. My issue was less with China and more the dismissal of deserts being useful and probably necessary.
Maowusu was grassland as recently as 218 BC and has variously been a marsh, a desert, a plain, and so on in recent epochs. Greening it is mostly an anti-desertification strategy to keep it from growing and let it re-develop into pastoral land again. It’s small and hasn’t been a desert for very long to begin with.
Cool. That makes sense and figured it’d be something like that. My issue was less with China and more the dismissal of deserts being useful and probably necessary.