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I've been a big advocate of this in the third world for quite some time.
The biggest issue is that the countries with the greatest deforestation problems....are all really poor...and the locals typically chop the trees down for firewood.
FWIW, far more forest cover exists in the US today than in the 1860s. Turns out not having to feed all of those horses and high efficiency farming really decrease the amount of raw acreage needed.
slightly related to climate / weather, needing to use a water form that seems abundant/harder to capture in one area and creating a water supply in another area, here are "fot nets" in the Sahara
amateur practices til gets right pro til can't get wrong / better approx answer to right q than exact answer to wrong q which can be made precise / “most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Source of all true art & science