"Well, first we made it worse by cutting more trees down for farming or whatever. But I think it's part of some big UN program; they hire women to plant trees and take care of them along the edges, and apparently they're growing like bonkers. The trees didn't survive all that well when they hired men," Pepper adds, giving him a wry smile. "It's still mostly desert, obviously, but it's pretty cool. Definitely a good sign that we can kind of undo all the dumb stuff we did without really knowing what we were doing. Or that we're still doing, for that matter."