It can be really good to cover the fields!
Reduce evaporation, expand the range of plants that can grow and provide subsidies for hard pressed farmers
Protecting food and water resources are going to get increasingly important over the next few decades
Almost all creative acts create stuff that isn’t “objectively valuable”
We’ve been tricked into thinking that’s what creativity is about. It’s only worthwhile if it’s “succesful”
That’s not why humans have creativity though.