Its a nice idea, and I suspect that in the far future more sophisticated versions of roughly this kind of thing will happen.
But it won’t happen soon. This is the high fruit on the geography tree. It might be possible to develop a desert, but it would be much more cost effective to develop places that already have fresh water/soil etc. There are still lots of forests, jungles and grassy plains out there to be developed first.
Its a nice idea, and I suspect that in the far future more sophisticated versions of roughly this kind of thing will happen.
But it won’t happen soon. This is the high fruit on the geography tree. It might be possible to develop a desert, but it would be much more cost effective to develop places that already have fresh water/soil etc. There are still lots of forests, jungles and grassy plains out there to be developed first.