The Wuling Mini EV is the key to all of this

POLL: Should Joe Biden slip on a set of brass knuckles and reform the fuck out of Scipiowhitenationalist's face?

YES! count: 6,837,413,849 votes

No count: 2 votes (Dschult and Sciopio)

6,837,413,849 votes. So, you called whoever rigged the election?

If we can replace every single ute in Australia with Wuling Mini EVs, then we might just have a chance at stopping climate change.

That just made me think of this guy

centipede
stratogustav

I'm glad you guys revived this thread because I actually have been wanting to reply to Strat's post for quite some time now.

Normally, deserts are supposed to look sparse, parched, and barren. You don't want to introduce trees to naturally occurring deserts because then it would harm the ecosystem's natural order. However, there is a HUGE difference between "desertification" and deserts. Desertification is a man-made calamity, essentially what happens when the soil of semi-arid ecosystems like palm savannas and short grass prairies gets degraded to the point where it can no longer sustain the natural flora and fauna. The most infamous example of this was the American Dust Bowl:



And we all know what a catastrophe that was. However, in modern times, the most urgent case of desertification is undoubtedly that which is occurring in the sub-Saharan region. Sub-Saharan Africa used to be composed of savannah, but now, man's agriculture and goat-ranching is rapidly transforming it into a literal wasteland. However, there is an easy and natural solution to this problem. In the case of desertification, the solution usually IS to plant tree species that are native to the area in order to stop soil erosion. RealLifeLore posted a great video about the subject a little over a year ago:





So, in the case of desertification, YES, trees are the solution to the problem. But you never want to bring trees to true, naturally occurring deserts, otherwise you'd just be spreading invasives, and you'd ruin the ecosystem in the process.

It sounded like Strat was referring to naturally occurring deserts as opposed to desertified land when he mentioned his idea about planting trees in desert places, so I just wanted to offer some clarification on the subject. As a matter of fact, true deserts actually store a lot of carbon in their soil. The root systems of desert plants and bushes are so deep that they are able to draw considerably more CO2 from the atmosphere down into the ground than one would think, or so I've read. So you definitely don't want to turn deserts into forests or vice-versa.