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The Loess Plateau in China comes to mind[1], gigantic scale, mostly manual labor. 1: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2007/03/15/restoring-chinas-loes
by blacksmith_tb 4y ago
The Loess Plateau in China comes to mind[1], gigantic scale, mostly manual labor.
1: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2007/03/15/restoring-chinas-loess-plateau https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2007/03/15/restori...
- nologic01 4y agoThis (and the other examples in comments) are somehow comforting, in the sense that they seem to suggest that soil processes are fairly reversible (though the effort required for achieving results in a reasonable timescale might be enormous).