What If We Could Turn Deserts Into Farmland?

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Deserts won't be barren wastelands anymore. We're going to be turning the world's deserts into lush farmland. How costly would terraforming the planet cost? And why could making deserts farmland destroy the Amazon rainforest?

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00:00 Desert farmlands?
00:52 Desert facts
01:23 Evapotranspiration
01:59 Nanoclay
03:30 Materials and cost

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