From the article: >>>> The researchers’ biggest worry is that the trees are depleting subterranean aquifers so that eventually nothing will flourish. I know n

From the article: >>>> The researchers’ biggest worry is that the trees are depleting subterranean aquifers so that eventually nothing will flourish. I know nothing about this subject so the above may be an issue, or it may not. What can you take away from the article? I'm sure there have been a great many displaced along the way by the project, is it going to be worth it in the end? It seems like it should be a great project to analyse. There's a large amount of money being injected into it and it's at a large enough scale that you could try a lot of different approaches to see what worked. But, as ever, it sounds like incentives are misaligned so we may never get true information about what is actually working and what isn't. Reading through the article it sounded spookily like China's Great Leap Forward at the end of the 50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward