Maybe. My point is that, considering the scale of other projects that the USSR was able to achieve, i'm sure they would have found a solution. Mobilizing resources and manpower at a huge scale is something a socialist planned economy is uniquely good at.

The USSR under Stalin had already implemented a huge ecological program of planting thousands of kilometers of forest belts to protect fields from adverse climate effects like erosion, mitigate droughts, etc.

This program is something not a lot of people nowadays – not even many communists – know about anymore, but almost a century later Stalin's ecological initiatives still continue to define the landscape all across Russia, Ukraine and other Soviet Republics with immensely positive effects, and the scale of this project was huge, almost comparable i would say to China's current Great Green Wall.

Unfortunately a lot of these initiatives were stopped immediately by Khrushchev as soon as Stalin died, forest belts began to be partially destroyed, and afforestation and conservation measures were never re-adopted to the same scale as under Stalin.