China's eighth-largest desert, Maowusu Desert, is turning green. The desert spanned across 42,200 square kilometers in northwestern China. But its area has b...
To be pedantic, I don’t generally like the ‘natural’ framing. Everything that exists is natural including humans and the things they convert. You care about some deserts not because they are “natural” but because you wish to preserve the lives such ecosystems happen to support.
Surely natural in this context means “without large scale human interference?”
You are correct in the caring of deserts being important because of the ecosystems they support, but I can’t exactly think of a better way to frame such deserts as “natural” deserts.
Yeah I’m aware of the context, which was why I said I was being pedantic. I’m just personally interested in technicalities due to vague wording and rulings in card games and RPGs which happened to influence much of my life.
To be pedantic, I don’t generally like the ‘natural’ framing. Everything that exists is natural including humans and the things they convert. You care about some deserts not because they are “natural” but because you wish to preserve the lives such ecosystems happen to support.
Surely natural in this context means “without large scale human interference?”
You are correct in the caring of deserts being important because of the ecosystems they support, but I can’t exactly think of a better way to frame such deserts as “natural” deserts.
Yeah I’m aware of the context, which was why I said I was being pedantic. I’m just personally interested in technicalities due to vague wording and rulings in card games and RPGs which happened to influence much of my life.