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> It will also shift the local climate balance towards a more habitable ecosystem, enabling first vegetation and then slowly growing the rest of the food chain.

Depends on the deserts in question and knock-on effects: Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants.

* https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-sat...

Helping vegetation in one place to grow may hinder it somewhere else. How important this is still appears to be an open question:

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00071-w

I'm not sure if humans are wise enough yet to try 'geo-hacking' (we're already messing things up: see carbon dumping).