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There is a wide variety of deserts. Some of them have rich, interesting, valuable ecosystems, possibly including the one(s) you lived in. And some of them are m

• kragen 7y ago
  This is like describing the aroma of a gardenia or the sound of your child singing to herself as she plays as “almost certainly useless”.
  • majewsky 7y ago
    But still, if we are going to have solar panels somewhere, I'd rather have them in a desert where there is not as much wildlife to disrupt as in, say, a forest or grassland biome. It's not like we're at risk of running out of deserts, either.
    • kragen 7y ago
      (1) Generally this is not good ecological thinking. Disrupting a robust biome like grassland or rainforest is much more difficult than disrupting a fragile one like desert or tundra, and robust biomes recover much faster if you do manage to disrupt them. I think it happens to be correct in this case because the panels will tend to strengthen the biome by providing shade rather than disrupt it. If you go around disrupting desert biomes on a large scale, you cause desertification, converting the adjacent savanna and forest biomes into semi-arid desert. So even if you don't value desert for itself, that is foolish planning, unless your aim is to harm wildlife and the humans alike. (2) We aren't at risk of running out of children, either, but that doesn't excuse neglecting or sacrificing them.
  • Retric 7y ago
    Hardly, the amount of extreme desert vs the amount of people that want to visit is an extreme over supply. On the other hand people actually spend effort growing flowers. PS: Joy is a recognized form of economic benifit.