Ignorant people look at a desert and see lifeless desolation. When they educate themselves they come to see the desert as an very active environment with limit

Ignorant people look at a desert and see lifeless desolation. When they educate themselves they come to see the desert as an very active environment with limited resources, and cut-throat competition for same, that makes human impact more pronounced. Better to put solar panels over scrubland or even farmland than into deserts.