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China's Largest Solar Farm Is Quietly Changing The Desert Around It (www.bgr.com)
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A solar farm in China is greening the land around it by reducing ground water evaporation, cutting down on wind, and adding water to the ground.

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[–] tetrislife@leminal.space 0 points 7 hours ago

You can't call uncaring consumption or negligent cost-cutting measures geo-engineering. Geo-engineering is an expense, and whoever spends is looking at their returns, which is an incentive to do worse than uncaring consumption etc.