Over the decades, people from the midwest and back east have moved to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and planted trees, lawns and shrubs in their yards, trying to make it look like where they came from. But without the water from the Colorado River, none of those green plants would grow. It is a desert. Dry and dusty.
I don't like this starkness. But this starkness makes a stark people and when carried to the extremes by the Muslims...with this ideology's origin in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. The deserts make for tough peoples. Water and nothing is in abundance.
I have driven through rural New Mexico. All you would see the desert until I rounded a curve and looked into a slight valley that had been cultivated into lushness. There was trees, fruit trees and green vegetation and a vegetable garden. I know how this is done. My carefully marshaling the rain when it falls and when the stream runs more fully. The water has to be diverted to irrigation and done well or you fail
I am saying there is greenery out in the Arizona and New Mexico desert but Sicario makes sure none appears on film. I don't think I saw one tree