[ dead. the answer is dead but wolfwood doesn't give it and instead favors the topic of their conversation that's the meat of the matter. he offers a shrug before speaking. ]

Beats me. As far as anyone has ever known, it's been just one large desert.

[ and given the people who first "settled" the planet, wolfwood would have assumed that they would have tried to find water or anything to sustain life before resulting to what they did. or, at least, deciding that it was the only way that things could be accomplished. ]

But, to answer ya question, they do if ya make them. [ a humorless laugh as wolfwood takes out the cigarette from his mouth and rubs out the embers on the pavement next to him. he's going to light up another one, but not just yet. ] It's probably never strictly through brute force, but we have them to produce whatever we ask for. Some of them are even more specialized to provide for one thing over another.

Sometimes people will thank them for what they provide. Other times people won't bother to spend a single thought on it.

[ as plainly as wolfwood's words were, there is an underlying trace of frustration and anger. if it's directed at the overall situation or at the cruelty of humanity, it's unclear. but as wolfwood rightly stated, humans are great at exploiting things until they're no longer of any use to them. ]