Why don't we pump seawater into deserts to revive them?

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Have you ever heard the phrase “salt the earth”? That’s the fastest way to kill everything in the soil and make sure nothing grows for a very very long time.

It's not a very very long time. Rain will wash it away. However in a desert, you're right.