Why Dubai's Man-Made Islands Are Still Empty

[@raphael5165]

A city should never be built to look good from the sky. It should be built to look good from the perspective of the people walking through its streets.

[@johnsMITHhhhhh88]

Yeah cool aerial photos will attract a lot of publicity, but the people who will actually buy and develop it are going to travel there and all they will see are giant piles of sand in the sea

[@angelofdeath275]

@@cannabico6621 No.

[@luizcastro5246]

Try the other million cities on earth if that's what you're looking for

[@frds_skce]

@@luizcastro5246 You're telling the multi-millionaire people to not spend money on lands (or islands in this case) in dubai? They'll happily walk far away from those sand islands, i tell you

[@ezookami4540]

@@frds_skce they will not cos this is not prestigious at all and it is all about prestige. Those island have really bad press, so being an owner of such an island will give you nothing but bad press. First of all you associate yourself with regime and second you support environment devastation ( yep, they built islands on coral reefs and waters are polluted with poo) So multi-millionaire people will do business with Saudi, but will not buy a pile of sinking sand that is ugly AF.

[@Predator20357]

The first problem was the fact they made things that look nice from above, it shows that they are more interested in things looking pretty instead of functional

[@gerald5561]

Exactly like where we’re the engineers and smart people in this project? Did they get stuck under the concrete?

[@Predator20357]

@@gerald5561 They weren’t allowed to tell the artists “No dude, Land isn’t just something you can slap on and expect it to stick”

[@MacXpert74]

That's the problem with unlimited control by people that have too much money and no knowledge and won't take 'no' for an answer. It doesn't end well.

[@shtarkloff]

It's eastern mentality

[@Predator20357]

@@shtarkloff Woah dude, I seen things just as dumb as this in the West Like ElonMusks projects

[@sanaburton9229]

Dubai kind of feels like an experiment in what happens when you give people too much money.

[@MrScottmoad]

No doubt.

[@Mephitinae]

Dubai was dirt poor prior to the 1960s. Then the elite got rich with oil in a couple of years. Incidentally, UAE is probably the country that will suffer the most from covid-19 economically. Easy come, easy go, as they say.

[@SuperKelbe]

Like the stupid shit lottery winners buy.

[@prabhukiranz]

but if they(who has money) kinda... spend on this kinda shit ONLY...... the world n poor like us gets employment right ??? do u think they are building with their own sweet sweat ?

[@sanaburton9229]

@@prabhukiranz The problem is that Dubai doesn't really fall into standard employment patterns, either. To accomplish such ambitious things so fast, despite having a pretty small population, they rely heavily on migrant construction workers, who are treated fairly abysmally. Dubai unfortunately has made "excessive wealth" its cultural identity in an unsustainable way.

[@SwayTree]

Few years ago my company was doing a project for a client in Dubai. I spend a lot of time there and also learned a lot about the place. The people there are greedy, extremely greedy. And they seem not to plan too much in advance. The city itself is quite old because it was a port city. The most cosmopolitan in that part of the world. They used to have pearls there but they were so agressive in getting them that oysters went extinct in that area. They had oil. Exploited it so much that they have none now. They have no respect for the nature. They use it, use it and use it. They have this mindset that everything and everyone should serve them if they consider them inferior. There is no gratidute towards anything. People or environment. Everything is disposable. A building was on fire? Let's leave it and build a new one. Everything must look expensive but when you take a closer look it is very tacky. There is a huge waste of space (inside the buildngs, outside areas). They serve no purpose they are just meant to look "rich". But it is all the surface, everything is empty inside. Even if you go on top of Burj Kalifa you quickly realize that it isn't worth it because you won't see anything interesting (and it was around $50 at that time). The whole city is just a golden empty shell. No soul, no value.

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree4781]

You sound really jealous, mate. Stay where you are, I mean this lousy rathole you're living in.

[@81crispy]

Yeah I made the mistake of going to work there as a barman….they take away your passport and basically hold you captive for 3 years,I got myself fired on purpose after just under a year and got kicked out,was a happy moment

[@mikejones-go8vz]

It’s only a stopover on the way to something better for me 😳

[@Peter_van_bjork]

Well described 👍 I don’t understand people that want to visit this country. It has no interesting culture, Building a fake archipelago.. i mean wtf 🙈

[@zachariahtitus1210]

Wow! Well said. I don’t know much about this topic ….but I understand what you mean to say. Superb!

[@KatGlos]

Living in Dubai as a child, the shells I collected on Jumeirah beach were all covered with tar while I saw the dredges at work out at The World. These projects are so damaging to the environment, and it was all in vain.

[@Lady_Tee15]

😪😪

[@Ragerian]

@@perspectivetheories7435 you heard it here first folks, ZDM_CB saw nothing with his own eyes!!

[@venus189]

I know. The people want money and think this is the way to a happy life

[@lifegoeson1007]

ZDM_CB if you’re there and you see nothing, then what are you standing on? 🧐

[@strangulator123]

Well, these projects are also vain, so no wonder they were eventually in vain, iykwim? *huehuehue*

[@thenebbishroute]

What's stupid is that it would only take a handful of marine and shoreline scientists to explain why this project wouldn't work out.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Interesting point! Perhaps one could have ensured a somewhat stronger water circulation that still would have stayed weak enough?

[@XThexReaperX]

@@HansDunkelberg1 mangrove trees would be the answer to the erosion of the sand islands, with coral catchers(that is to say arm thick poles of concrete that you can either tie living coral to so that it grows on and off of the poles or stack it against said poles) set out to act as a growing coral reef/shelf to prevent the sand from escaping too easily. All that would be needed after that would be enough channels(hopefully with excellent erosion preventing plants that can turn the sand into something more substantial. Hawaii has a grass that's root system stretches down 25 feet and are as stong as steel) to allow the water to ebb and flow, though that would require more knowledge on water circulation than I have.

[@PhonciblePBonehimself]

@@XThexReaperX the simple solution is: don‘t do it at all

[@XThexReaperX]

@@PhonciblePBonehimself don't do what at all? Build the construction in the first place? Attempt to try and solve the issue in the first place? Seek expert advice on what is possible? I am actually curious to know, because a simple solution does not make it the right one. Neither does a complex one make it right. I agree that they shouldn't have done it in the first place, but what is done is done and their is not bottling back up the spilled milk.

[@cannonfodder9248]

A handful? It would only take 1!

[@lw3269]

Can you imagine what would happen if this money was spent on improving the planet and people's lives?

[@Nashwan660]

Exactly 👍 But least do they care!

[@twitzmixx8374]

exactly,

[@minglin2814]

Let's start from America

[@ahmadjauhar4562]

Then don't even have any useless military

[@Billswiftgti]

one would argue that these investments could bring enough profit to contribute to the world, but not only I highly doubt it, I also despise such cringe displays.

[@tanmeysaraiya2236]

There’s just a thing about Dubai that makes it feel so robotic and dead. The city feels soulless

[@boRegah]

It's probably the blood and tears of slaves baked into the concrete

[@LuckyShowTime]

When did you go?

[@TamWam_]

i live in the UAE but not in Dubai, honestly i've been there a few times and never even went to Burj Khalifa. i dont plan on it, the traffic sucks, heard of many crashes happening, and i dont even like my city that much either because of how boring it is. but dubai is just on another level 😭

[@danielcardwell5457]

The sheer amount of environmental and ethical issues this raises is completely mind blowing, this is a perfect example of how you can't bend all the rules of nature, it will bite back eventually.

[@chriscanfly6386]

I mean it.. wasn't a horrible idea

[@JesusBichito99]

But they did when they created male gods and became the only homophobic animals that justify marrying cousins 💀

[@arjanpetersen]

There is limited amount of environmental, and ethical issues. Here in Netherlands we have done this massively

[@YouTubePurgetheblackplague]

Then the rising ocean

[@Philemaphobia]

We learned about reef building to be honest. The ocean building projects always aimed to be ecological sane, they only used natural materials to build the island, not even concrete. Did Flora and Fauna change? Absolutely. The area had been flat sea ground, now it’s a reef, sea grass is growing that wasn’t there before. Arguably the marine biology got better (as long as there is no one living to pollute the area) Very likely the islands will ‚grow together‘ as they stopped clearing the waterways in between (it’s already happening) and Dubai will just have three big promontories (? Had to Google this word, it’s ‚Land Tongue‘ in my language) and the reef-like marine biology will change back to ‚normal‘. Other than some huge dam projects, the island did not change world climate, which got us one step closer to safe ways of terraforming.

[@CCABPSacsach]

“I live on the Netherlands” “Which city?” “Dubai”

[@shrxyeah6264]

😂😂😂😂

[@muhammadfiras4784]

I see what u did there

[@nixonn3]

"I like the Netherlands..." " do you mean Holland?" "Who are the Dutch?"

[@ct8092]

Sort of living in Paris. “France?” “No. China.”

[@dyu999]

'i live at Cambridge' 'which city?' "Dongguan China" 'Cambridge Coaching Centre"

[@КонстантинГеоргиев-и9ф]

Fun fact - a coral reef was buried underneath the sand in order for this abomination to be built.

[@melonieashway4189]

That's not fun at all..... :(

[@ariarad7986]

That’s real sad. They will be punished for their actions if they don’t stop. The ocean needs coral, you can’t just kill it.

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

@@ariarad7986 You mean WE will be punished for their actions. We all share the oceans and any imbalance in one region would eventually affect the entire Earth's oceans.

[@ariarad7986]

@@_Just_Another_Guy It will punish us as well, but as long as they make these islands, they will face consequences too. They can’t revert their actions, and neither can we.

[@ethansprojects7399]

That’s sad

[@tylerhutchinson5154]

Dubai is a perfect example of why consolidating wealth in the hands of a few can be devastating. Especially when those individuals are rich largely by virtue of what family they are born into. God damn we suck as a species sometimes.

[@robotnoir5299]

It's actually an example of what a corrupt government will do. Consolidating wealth into the hands of morons who didn't earn it.

[@drakonsdi]

Sometimes?

[@thatpeskyrat]

@@drakonsdi yeah, sometimes. for every piece of shit rich person there’s plenty of good people out there

[@moquilla1]

Sometimes? Lol people have always been awful.

[@supertrucker99]

Cussing fixes nothing

[@jaxager]

I can't believe that someone didn't realize that adding those breakwater islands would make the inner water stagnant. I grew up around the Mississippi gulf coast and the beaches there suck. It's because of the barrier islands a couple of miles off the coastline. Go beyond those barrier islands and the water is beautiful, clear, has surf, and is blue. Along the coastline there are no waves and the water is brown. I certainly wouldn't want to spend millions of dollars on a house located on brown, stagnant, still water.

[@yeemawheaver1387]

Yea, they didn't think this through. I feel like the people who did this were trying to live a childhood dream that wouldn't ever stand in the real world.

[@existenceisrelative]

Maybe they were aiming for the wealthy mosquito demographic.

[@shallwegettit7874]

@@yeemawheaver1387 what kid would grow up and not want to live in a palace surrounded by gross brown Stillwater

[@yeemawheaver1387]

@@shallwegettit7874 most kids who grew up mentally as well as physical which the constructors obviously skipped the mental part.

[@jaxager]

@@Davey_Maick Good. I didn't know if I was sufficiently conveying it through a KZbin comment.

[@ToastyFresh1]

When you start building a huge project in your Minecraft world but lose motivation and are too lazy to take it down.

[@danialasyraf8527]

@The Knight of Nightmares no one asked

[@reddiamond6148]

@@danialasyraf8527 No one ask your opinion

[@shaikhamj]

HAHHAHA I CANT

[@Tyrashabrooks]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆

[@stfano98]

And change it into a gulag for villagers

[@OnyxSilas]

Imagine having a private island like five feet from somebody else’s “private” island lol

[@AntonSoundcheck]

It's basically like living in a flooded suburb. ;)

[@diegosalgado7501]

😂

[@xxBrokenDreams666xx]

yeah, more like a neighborhood lol. might as well live in a marina for that much

[@nigerianprincess101]

It’s really impossible to get a scale for these islands from what we’ve seen.

[@E_B-]

Lol 😆🤣

[@christya2488]

I'm reminded of a line from a movie I once saw. It's something like "Land is a good investment because it's the one thing they're not making anymore." You can't really create sustainable land. Mother nature will always have her way.

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

YES mess with nature and she will seek revenge.

[@judithmcdonald9001]

Nor can you create life. It's a world with no ecology to sustain life. Enjoy eating money!!

[@ASRLawman]

You can build a sustainable island. It's just not possible now since we don't a full understanding on how to do it and not enough tech is there to make it a reality. Mother nature payback is just a warning from nature that you didn't do the work properly.

[@peterkelly8357]

this is what happens when you have more money than sense

[@outofcontext728]

Than planing

[@outstretchedwings]

I believe one of the rich idiots who bought a plot of land on the World later killed himself.

[@ALQQ]

Nah thats just in Dubai 💀 I feel like the “World” was their lowkey only failure for now since they did make so much successful stuff

[@figgi_myestrio5092]

@@ALQQ r/wooosh

[@ALQQ]

@@figgi_myestrio5092 stfu i just realised 💀

[@berandal99]

Indonesia has more than 17000 natural islands and most of them are empty. Perfect tropical weather, cheap currency, delicious foods, friendly people, famous tourist destinations, strategic geographical hub. And these investors choose to put their money on artificial islands next to a desert.

[@gilldominicmendoza5202]

I'd rather have those island be untouch thanks.

[@purecanium]

Wich indonesian islands are you referring at? All of them? They surely don't have those characteristics you pointed out. Beside, indonesian people are not a big fan of foreign investors.

[@purecanium]

Also, those man made island are next to one of the richest city in the world, while Indonesian-untouched Island are next to nothing.

[@berandal99]

@@purecanium which characteristic that they don't have? All of them?

[@berandal99]

@@gilldominicmendoza5202 I do not agree, but I understand. I don't want to see the next Bali either. That Island is a victim of it's own beauty. But I'm sure we can do it differently.

[@jfloresmac]

- " I have a trillion dollars and dont know what to do with them" - " Do you wanna pour sand from the desert into the ocean?" - "Sounds good"

[@DjamieA]

Its actually sucked up from the ocean floor if im not mistaken

[@kaanosphere]

@@DjamieA yep, it's true. They fucked up the ocean, twice!

[@youaintasbadasyouthink]

The deserts used to be under the ocean, they've found whale fossils in them before

[@jfloresmac]

@@DjamieA "Or do you wanna suck sand from the ocean floor and put it somewhere else on the ocean?" "Sure, why not"

[@remyche8768]

They never hand a sand pit/box in their backyard as a kid

[@kre9]

Ah, nothing sets the mood like sailing by multiple barren sandy lots on the way to your resort island surrounded by stagnant water.

[@rawasya3148]

Thailanda the best for human mood

[@Jasonlimitless]

Those islands look like the most impractical places to live in the world.

[@ENGINEERINGSPIRIT]

Hahahaa

[@Tokito935]

They are

[@Jasonlimitless]

So even tho you live right by a massive city you're really isolated and it's extremely inconvenient logistically, and altho you live on an island you're a stone's throw and in view of the mainland.. worst of both worlds 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@kosmas173]

They are supposed to be marketed for rich people that don't care about those inconveniences.

[@planescaped]

@@kosmas173 Or about their entire property sinking beneath the water after a decade.

[@AlexisDouFlo]

Mother Earth was like "I'm not into tattoos, thank youuu!"

[@aboysarchives]

Lmao

[@kaviyap5171]

👌😅

[@christianj252]

Then the sea rose and washed away the tattoos.

[@silic8873]

dam

[@kaverigupta9961]

😂😂👍

[@shan2fly993]

The Earth has enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not for every man's greed. -Mahatma Gandhi

[@okaycook1307]

*Laughs in Elon Musk*

[@spicy1603]

Absolutely true man.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Depends on how many of Man there is...

[@crippledegg9815]

“Love is trash, bitches need cash.” - Mahatma Ghandi

[@arigande5602]

@@crippledegg9815 I don't know either to laugh or cry

[@Urugami45]

On another note, these island projects used so many dredging vessels, that it was difficult for Louisiana to find any to rebuild the coastline after Katrina.

[@zupurfeg89]

This islands project to me is a mixture of arrogance and really bad taste

[@perpetuated]

And no culture

[@Shady36]

Farming, aqua culture, education, healthcare, water sustainability. Sigh, priorities.

[@bigman-em7cc]

Mad because you could never afford it.

[@silviad3049]

Why? Like it is totally creative

[@zupurfeg89]

@@silviad3049 if your comment is a reply to mine i would say that being creative does not mean to have good taste or being humble. So yes, they have been creative, and i also say arrogant because they thought that just because they have a lot of money they can disregard the ecosystem by doing whatever they want with it - a symptom of the underlying philosophy that is one of the causes of climate change (everything for profit!). Bad taste because to me it's cheap - an attempt at saying "look, we have the whole world here! we aren't just a country built on petrodollars!" - instead of doing something original, like a project expression of their culture they decided for the blandest, safest, most banal thing they could come up with. And i think i get why - to show grandiosity and neutrality in order to hide and make people forget their problems with human rights (who do you think built the islands?at what cost?). TL:DR - we are so rich that we do as we please, no responasbility towards nothing and nobody On the positive side - not being an expert in island making - this experiment may have some useful results, data or techinques in that field - something that may prove valuable with a rising sealevel

[@MrDlt123]

Imagine that youre rich enough to own an island but your neighbor on another island plays their music too damn loud.

[@jerseyjunior]

lol

[@vinster8884]

When I listen to Slayer, my neighbors do too. 👍

[@mikekaatman3194]

Best comment yet..bravo!!

[@jjano2320]

If the price for lots keep going down I might move my trailer home there.

[@gunsmokeandghouls]

LOL 😆

[@MichelleOfDarkness]

Reminds me of a quote: 'You were too busy thinking you could, you didn't stop to think you should?' (Yeah. I know I've butchered the quote. I was tired and lazy to look up the quote. Real quote below:) DesertStateInEU: (Found exact quote) "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didnt stop to think if they should "

[@antpoo]

Peak Prosperity 😂

[@mmjn97]

Damn

[@kathleenr4047]

Well, you messed up the quote. It's "You were SO busy figuring out if you COULD, you didn't stop to think IF you should?" Also acceptable, "You didn't stop to think, should you?"

[@MichelleOfDarkness]

@@kathleenr4047 Thanks for the correction. It's later here, I was too lazy to look up the exact quote, and was basically just saying the gist of it.

[@nsdfancy]

MichelleOfDarkness well they should because if it’s finished there will be WAY MORE tourist attraction, and Dubai gets most of its money from tourists.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Definitely my worst ever trip. I got recommended to go to Dubai by a Moroccan stewardess I met in Bali and I've never seen somewhere so fake, it's like spoilt brats trying to outdo each other in a boiling hot sand pit in the middle of nowhere

[@fryzee9789]

Sounds a lot like Vegas

[@karenw1706]

That is how I describe it to people- a super sized Las Vegas!

[@marinzivkovic4662]

I was there and I liked it. I feel like people go somewhere just to bytch about it

[@boRegah]

On my trip to Sichuan a Vietnamese bartender in Manila told me that you have a valid point. It would be laughable if it wasn't for the sadness

[@TamWam_]

born and raised in UAE, can confirm dubai sucks and ive never lived there (thank goodness), only been there for expo 2020 or some other event. i wish i lived in a different country tho 😭

[@rawanmohamed5923]

it looks like a project I’d do in my Minecraft world,,

[@BlueLatte-f3f]

Very similar indeed

[@schwarzerritter5724]

I was thinking Doshin the Giant, but Minecraft fits too.

[@lukajovanovski1178]

Same and it even looks like the projects after u realise they look way uglier in real life then in imagination after u complete them

[@haziqazhad4185]

hye tae

[@kevind7617]

Wuv.. Twoo Wuv..

[@jesusramos778]

They are just like kids realizing their sand castles don’t last.

[@beldiman5870]

Well, the sand castle comparison could also apply to the financial market before the 2008 crisis

[@getchasome6230]

Bel, that was 10 years ago and were already recovered from that thanks to Donald Trump

[@dogman8339]

@@getchasome6230 hahahahaha. No

[@getchasome6230]

@@dogman8339 who did it then?

[@getchasome6230]

@@dogman8339 I'm still waiting. (Cue the insults)

[@jon8833]

They had so much money they started pouring sand into the ocean.

[@salman4088]

It is a gulf not ocean

[@Dreamcatcher0007]

They were so out of work ala Vella

[@ronlyon4645]

corona: let me introduce myself

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

Dredged......not poured.

[@cerving20]

@Nicks Kicks No it aint.

[@zackakai5173]

As an American, I'm almost happy Dubai exists for no other reason than it means we don't have the worst-designed cities in the world.

[@wiseauserious8750]

Haha I cosign to that my American brotha

[@CGoneColdOfficial]

Dubai literally took all of the American planning mistakes made in the past and combined it all in one city. 16 lane freeways, soulless suburbia, car dependency… literally everything

[@Mordecrox]

Weren't some of those "flaws" intentional? I mean I get the feeling that Dubai lacks planning while some American cities had it by intentional design and technically their goal was achieved but these weren't good goals. Cul de sacs. Made with the objective to make traffic slower, traffic became slower, um, mission accomplished? Dunno why you wanted that in the first place but well done

[@autograndeunlimited]

​@@CGoneColdOfficialno they didn't. How is it soulless better than tiny box Europe. 😂

[@CGoneColdOfficial]

@@autograndeunlimited not all the suburbs are souless but when you see some of these new developments… they all look the same, no variation. This is coming from a us native so I’m not hating

[@shanghainese7198]

500 years from now: people say aliens built these islands

[@sandstarr777]

Stolen

[@shanghainese7198]

@@sandstarr777 wdym this is stolen. When i was watching this video this was what i first commented. If someone else said something similar, apologies, but i didn’t steal a comment as this was what i thought of.

[@Poisindart2000]

Those islands will not last 500 years lol

[@vndlz7032]

@Ultra_ Human then its not an island anymore smart ass

[@ladsd679]

@@vndlz7032 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ermatthe]

The fact they opened an Atlantis hotel there is fitting. Dubai might end up being a real life Atlantis with the way they've changed their coast line.

[@Khema-c1v]

so the Atlantis they have been looking for is yet to be submerged.....but let's hope not and yet we can never tell, only the sea can tell

[@takeapieandrun]

Atlantis is on the Palm, which has tons of hotels, restaurants, etc

[@bucket8849]

and they say arabs are terrorists

[@SkyRecruit18]

Speaking of Atlantis some research lines with it being the Sahara desert eye. Bright insight has a better description than my own

[@zarkuz]

I stayed at Atlantis for a week it was amazing

[@georgeirwin3511]

Let me get this right. Did you say that it is SAND piled up in water, with tides all around eroding the edges? I'm going to pass on those luxury lots as an investment opportunity!

[@Sashstashreview]

I’m trying to figure out how do you build an island???

[@TheLalalalani]

Yeah they've been sinking back into the ocean for years. I got super into the palms in high school lol

[@matildabishops9196]

@@operator6438 …Hope They Can Swim! Lol

[@elokin300]

When I was little my parents showed me a bible story about two men. One built his house on a stone island and the other on a pile of sand. When a storm came, the sand island sunk. Don’t remember what it had to do with god, but at least its relevant now

[@PatinaEdochie]

@@elokin300 I thought about that biblical example/parable too 💯 Jesus gave a sermon on this about “building” your life on a firm foundation by following God’s teachings as if placing your life on a Rock being a wise builder versus a foolish builder building on sand. When stuff happens in your life exemplified by the wind blowing, floods coming etc, your “house” or what you’re building will stand firm through it and not be destroyed/washed away. So yes Jesus liked to speak in parables, comparisons metaphors etc to hopefully make it make sense 💯🙏🏽💓

[@michaeldoit7920]

The sewer of the world's tallest building isn't even hooked up to city sewer. It has to be trucked off every day in tanker trucks.

[@BeautifulDove-i7u]

I know, unbelievable!!

[@BiohChemicalz]

It’s all fun and games till the sea level rises

[@justainternetwonderer1273]

BiohChemicalz best comment

[@lemappeur1331]

Fun Fact: There was actually a plan for an iceberg to be towed to the UAE, if it had actually happened, then...

[@protonneutron9046]

ACTUALLY, the sea level hasn't risen measurably since WW2. The Onion is calling you BiohChemicalz

[@Septembre1]

I hope soo

[@funngy1122]

Proton Neutron mabye not where you live it has not but it is very noticable in smaller island nations

[@anthonybanks4568]

Building artificial islands when u still have plenty of undeveloped beachfront coastline makes no sense.

[@anwarullahraza5455]

Well ,if the did not had sense , then dubai could not have flourished

[@anthonybanks4568]

@@anwarullahraza5455 Dubai flourishes only because of oil, not because of good leadership.

[@anwarullahraza5455]

Well check the stats now oil contributes to 3% of their gdp

[@anthonybanks4568]

@@anwarullahraza5455 your being a bit cheeky here Anwarullah. That’s like saying Microsoft has nothing to do with Bill Gates wealth because he left them years ago lol.

[@anwarullahraza5455]

Dude iam trying to say they utilised their resources properly or else Venezuela could have been the Dubai which we have now

[@ilikepigeons6101]

As much of a stupid idea it was, it's sad seeing an almost completed massive project like this abandoned and forgotten

[@nietoperz6]

Abondeden3dendned

[@ilikepigeons6101]

@@nietoperz6 whoopsie thanks

[@Erysea]

Better stop the loss than lose more. A well known psychological mechanism would compel people to keep investing as it's almost completed, but if you have nothing to win, you need to stop. If the balance is negative, you need to stop.

[@ilikepigeons6101]

@@Erysea well said

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

i don't think it's sad, i think it's vindicating.

[@isabellawhittemore4808]

I randomly found this on google maps years and years ago, I cannot even tell you how confused I was.

[@GrumpSkull]

Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually - Jimi Hendrix.

[@Hirenji]

You just want attention -charlie puth (ik its so random)

[@mastube7642]

Nice

[@bekaanderson5122]

Matthew 7:24-27 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

[@Hollidayze]

Love this

[@karelnevenzoon1230]

🤘🏻

[@Swagtildawn]

Not the point but now Dubai just has these billion dollar eye sores. They could have the beautiful waterfront but now they have giant sand dumps.

[@wasdwazd]

Especially 'The World'. They couldn't even be bothered to make the outline of that ugly thing straight and even.

[@donkeythong4081]

Should stick to drilling holes . With all their wealth, this is the best they could come up with?

[@LTGvideos]

@@wasdwazd I think that's so boats can get through, while the outline still protects the interior from waves and such.

[@katie1925]

@@LTGvideos i guess that would lessen the need for oil unless all the millionaires and the ppl living there buy their own personal yachts

[@katie1925]

Idk. I visited palm jumeirah it was like a small adult version of Disney world and with more gold

[@actaemazantor9558]

Dubai is literally humankind's ode to its own decadence.

[@cashkitty3472]

Twinned with Vegas

[@EricAkif]

...and demise.

[@morgothfromangband6082]

And incompetence.

[@GoinMLG]

@@cashkitty3472 At least Vegas understands it's place.

[@damienturner6368]

Exactly. Reminds me of those artificially beautiful glass houses with little comfort and practicality... to the point where all houses look alike. Soul-less and lacking character, history and memories.

[@BrahmaMishra]

Fun fact - they are still empty

[@macdeuce1008]

Imagine the world islands going to war between each other

[@uneazypolarb7691]

Lol they would use water guns

[@ceruleanfish6703]

@@uneazypolarb7691 Super squirters at 25 paces :D ... I have this image of world leaders in their fancy suits dueling now. What a huge belly laugh I had. Bests~

[@professorhoodoo]

lol

[@BOBMARLEYY007]

with full of shitty bags...

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Nuclear missiles: I'mma roasts all these son of bitches.

[@SubscriberswithnovideosC-ok7wv]

Dubai’s like that one kid in the class project who has a really cool idea but one that’s also pointless.

[@Miyakolover]

And has other people who are more talented doing his homework in exchange for money.

[@DragoneedZ]

@Andy im not sure why are you so butthurt , but dubai income from oil is less than 5% so your butthurt argument is invalid my friend

[@taehokang2551]

You’re like that one kid in class that has to point out everything

[@lavenderlizzi9269]

Let’s fill our trash here!

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

Meanwhile other so called “first world countries are handing out food parcels as their white middle class line up”

[@Yora21]

A yes. The Palm Islands. Also known as algae and mosquito ponds.

[@jyotaryavrati12]

Oh yeah ☺️

[@plantiron]

Shhhhhh they didnt see that coming did they 😁😁😁😁

[@jmg999]

This was another informative, educational piece of content from you, and I look forward to watching much more.

[@julieathome7793]

A classic example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”

[@r1ckySV]

Genius

[@beachblues2155]

😂🤣 Well said!

[@cemsengul16]

Jurassic Park

[@worscohli]

Yup!!!

[@Obiterarbiter]

"The World" looks like a botched island project on Cities Skylines.

[@TheLordHiggs]

Have you seen it on google maps? It looks ridiculous!

[@rasdread0989]

Welp all we have to do now is a meteor shower With country roads bgm

[@antwango]

hahaha jeeesus i just wrote that!!! agreed! its some drunk dude who thought the world looks vaguely like that that'll do, here ive got loadsa munay

[@antwango]

@Lamont Roberts Dubais a richmans themepark! Unsustainable! veyrons and ferraris left to rot in the desert... theyve gotten bored and now buying football clubs.... absolutely no thought put into any of the surroundings whatsoever.... chinas spending it right.... irrigating the desert, making it useable....

[@antwango]

@president camacho yeah basically the thought of every oil rich arabian prince that started the project and now is bored and left their veyrons to rot in the desert and moved onto buying football clubs as the next exciting project

[@schwiftynat]

“the world” seems so futuristic and creepy. kinda like something they THOUGHT would be the future but never actually happened. kinda like flying cars and robot maids.

[@shiinaetherlux3871]

Yeah future is so scary

[@seinyaaa4504]

Im still waiting on my robot maid gf ngl

[@EphyAvenue]

Lol give us ten years

[@billreed1606]

Jet packs: don't forget jet packs!!!

[@paulklee1936]

I can do without the artificial islands and flying cars. But bring me an anatomically correct robot maid now.

[@queenslander954]

Dubai’s terrible reputation warned off potential investors, who would want to invest there now.

[@rawasya3148]

True

[@ag1806]

This seems like playing SIM City in real life. Starting off Grand Projects and then not knowing whether it would go ahead as planned....

[@thesaint8400]

Playing with cheat money

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

Don't forget to add Tsunami just for fun.

[@hstibuspoenas8406]

Exactly

[@rizkyluthfina6814]

yudhi adhyatmiko siswono damn!😂

[@swatsa4460]

Nah it feels like cities skylines cuz cities skylines is like sim city but realistic

[@samuraifis]

I was only a teen back then, and I remember thinking, that’s such a horrible idea.

[@analyticalhabitrails9857]

Same.

[@tahaakram5542]

Same

[@Orchidlettux]

Exactly, I wish they’d created something else

[@tahaakram5542]

They could have given aid to a poor muslim nation for make there countrey less dependent on oil but they thought it is a good idea to just throw sand into the sea

[@CindyWarren2004]

I didnt even exist

[@zcrib3]

I love how they don't have proper sewage treatment over there, but build man-made islands and dumbass skyscrapers.

[@cashkitty3472]

You mean they want it to look pretty but not have proper infrastructure.

[@betonblack3621]

There’s nothing wrong with beautiful architecture but you must take care of the infrastructure first.

[@the1mexicant]

The good thing is you can shit in the street if you can’t make it back to the hotel

[@TheBasedCanadian]

They were jealous of the west and wanted it too

[@OmarAhmed-re7gw]

Tell me about it 🐱🐱

[@goldenmawar5589]

Thank you for adding Malay subtitle!

[@gabrielvasquez599]

I learned that sand castles wash away when I was 4. And I wasn't even a developer.

[@janicemars2952]

Wow, these look like cultured bacteria in a petri dish.

[@suefernandes8582]

🤣🤣🤣

[@diamondunicorn2421]

That’s what I said. Doesn’t look appealing to the eye from above.

[@ShuChak_opinion]

You are a true biologist,

[@wilanmarino1737]

Gwapa

[@janicemars2952]

Unseelie Court sounds legit! 🤣

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

Expectation: A luxurious palace on a private tropical island paradise. Reality: A McMansion on a hill of wet sand surrounded by a stagnant saltwater moat.

[@mikekaatman3194]

You summed that up nicely.

[@jerimow8400]

Well said!!

[@complimentary_voucher]

This is almost always the reality. See: almost all new-build suburbs 🤮

[@Jonesy_Ripley]

😬

[@vlz.matthew]

Basically one company just building whatever comes up in the owner's head without thinking of the difficulties

[@ferrellsl]

Getting utilities to these islands is absurdly expensive, not to mention that residents also need an expensive boat to reach shore and a place to dock said boat. Then they need a parking space and a car near the dock so they can go about their business on the mainland. Not to mention that you're stranded on your island during inclement weather or stranded on the mainland if you didn't beat the storm home. I guess this is par for the course when you consider they were engineered by desert dwellers who lived their entire lives in a desert wasteland.

[@hoi808]

Today’s adventure of “What comes in my recommended.”

[@SillyOlive]

Only reason why I'm here

[@penguinistaken4764]

Oli same

[@Eurotool]

Is this recommended to literally everyone? I enjoy this type of videos so I thought it was personalized

[@nehaha_17]

And WHY too!

[@justin-yy4jo]

Very original

[@afon_s]

- Why Dubai's man-made islands are still empty? - Because it was a stupid idea. Directed by Robert B. Weide

[@sentaiaddict]

L

[@Nietabs]

Your meme is outdated

[@thevapingcat6525]

Not funny

[@HumtySwag]

It wasn't Stupid Idea because Of Underground Basement Connected to Pakistan and Turkey

[@dannyherrera1598]

More like "Written, Produced & Directed by M. Night Shyamalan" 💀😂

[@bloatedblitz]

"Yo where do you live" "I live in the Florida part of the world islands in Dubai in the UAE"

[@hafeezkhan6181]

I live in the indian part..... Go check it on google earth😂😂

[@fiddygd8304]

I live on the Dubai part of the world, Dubai.

[@josemarrer0]

Hahhahh with maps again.

[@movieparts3189]

I live in the milky way galaxy in Dubai

[@hafeezkhan6181]

@@movieparts3189 really??

[@hottubtimemachine1200]

My husband a car guy, said $200,000 vehicles go to scrap to be destroyed, because why fix a dent when you can get new. And women don’t have many rights, you can shop or eat, no tight clothes or you get fined, and women can’t yell. Why would people spend their money on a wasteland. Not worth the hype. Great video.

[@rawasya3148]

It is true and they criminalize women if they scream to defend themselves and their sisters, and they torture them and their sisters in hospitals by leaving them to scream until they die. This is what happened to me in Abha, Saudi Arabia, and their customs and traditions are the same as Dubai. They want woman to be slaves like animals to satisfy their desires. So bad

[@belphy205]

I’ve stayed at the Atlantis. The water park was awesome, but most of what I remember is getting heat exhaustion and the hotel sending up a doctor free of charge. Good times

[@matthewbelanger535]

haha wtf man

[@thelegendofthem6120]

Glad you're better.

[@MyStupidYoutubeHandle]

I wanna visit Dubai so bad lol I feel like it’s the perfect place to go skydiving or something for the first time

[@justin4347]

@@MyStupidKZbinHandle never really got to visit but i stopped at the airport on the way to somewhere else and I had time to take just a peek at the city and it was crazyyyy, and the airport itself is a mega mall

[@areeba2415]

@@MyStupidKZbinHandle skydiving in dubai is a must, you get such a beautiful view of the palm. however the city itself is only worth visiting once or twice at max in my opinion.

[@ihaveauniqueperspectiveont1222]

This is like Starting a minecraft world and then leaving

[@thoriqnazar583]

Ouch

[@mrgod5139]

The only different is it makes a different coz this is the only world known exist physically

[@Riu.f]

Only one costs billions of dollars to start

[@logan2906]

@@mrgod5139 ok

[@blankcat5005]

Your name

[@luckyme1980dw]

Moral of story: Arrogant idea... Humbling outcome.

[@josepho3366]

It was just a waste of time at the end without any smart planing.

[@rawasya3148]

True

[@kloppskalli]

I've seen this when it was first released 2 years ago. Still worth watching again. 😊

[@kyleyang4711]

These islands are about to be known as the “Lost city of Atlantis”

[@shaman8375]

The main hotel on Jumeriah Palm Island is called Atlantis, and is Atlantis Themed

[@williampercival7662]

Nonsense absolutely.

[@williampercival7662]

@@shaman8375 Nonsense absolutely.

[@louie9373]

Ha! And this is where they docked their yachts despite the homelessness problem in the US

[@JahMagne223]

@@shaman8375 yeah used to get CONSTANT ads on it watching cartoons on tv

[@mohit9374]

Billionaire 1: I'm bored. Billionaire 2: yea me too. Billionaire 1: wanna doodle on the ocean?

[@darkcnotion]

What about something that would help someone else Billionaires?

[@hihu7200]

It was a government project.

[@danielsykes4872]

Billionaire 2: Hold on... I seem to have destroyed the economy. Can we do this later actually?

[@JP-wk7cc]

Hi Hu yeah but the government is basically controlled by the monarchy. And the royal family assets make them more like trillionaires than billionaires. Been there, it’s obscene.

[@bipinshah3400]

Why oh why don't they spend money on displaced people of their faith??? No those poor people would rather get to Christian Europe 🤔wonder why !!!?

[@ajantsmith6139]

This seems like the brainchild of someone with too many yes men around.

[@FCLaney]

Lol exactly, too many wealthy men around too many yes men

[@wms1650]

@@FCLaney They weren't "Yes Men". They were men advancing their long term employment. It was a good idea for all.

[@Sbinott0]

Well, it's easy to say now that 2008 happened, this could have been a great and smart investment to move the incomes of dubai from oil to tourism, since oil will finish but tourism not

[@zachall101]

Yes yes yes yes yes 😝 someone had to say it lol

[@Churros1616]

77777Carlo Dubai has already moved from oil. Dubai is actually not a oil rich emirate. Most of their economic activity comes from tourism, banking and real estate. Abu Dhabi is the oil rich emirate.

[@mountainman9145]

Fun Fact: Because this region is situated in the dessert and therefore experiences extreme heat they named the area the UAE which is an acronym for : United Air-conditioning Empire as every dwelling requires air conditioning to survive.

[@TamWam_]

as someone who lives in UAE and my AC is on 24/7, realest thing i've seen all day

[@lekanraposte6732]

Nature will claim back those "islands" in a very short time.

[@MinoritiesRlazy]

Nah I talk to Jesus personally he said he gone leave em there for a few hundred years

[@kyleturek3298]

Did you just say global warming is fake

[@lolichan3561]

@@kyleturek3298 lmaoo

[@yaraabifarraj6355]

@Joe Me IF????

[@venix2256]

Nature : Okay new islands made out of sand OH SHIT DESERT SAND GOVE ME THAT SHT

[@AaronMichaelLong]

I'm reminded of a great Douglas Adams quote: "The fundamental design flaws were masked by the superficial design flaws". While coastal properties are coveted real-estate, islands are very, very inconvenient and expensive to live on, and artificial islands are extravagantly expensive to build and very vulnerable to erosion.

[@sanniepstein4835]

So peninsulas would have been a better idea?

[@ShadowFri3nd]

@@sanniepstein4835 thinking about it... yeah maybe.

[@VictorLepanto]

@@sanniepstein4835 Actually, the "palms" were peninsulas.

[@michaelskywalker3089]

These islands can be great if the pre-built island infrastructure includes modern plumbing, electrical and communications technology and is funded and sponsored from a diversity of sources beyond the development corporations and even government sponsors. They look superficially primitive with few bridges but they are built with docks and function as safe ports. The fans seem to have waterflow/tidal problems but a major geo-engineering investment might fix that eventually.

[@boboutelama5748]

I will live in Dubai someday. Because "slave".

[@cz2165]

Even a regular person like me could predict that this project would be an ecological disaster.

[@Philemaphobia]

That’s because it is not an ecological disaster. *surprised pikachu face*

[@kys_ok]

@@rpkelly3825 This.

[@kys_ok]

@@rpkelly3825It means I'm agreeing with you, mate.

[@thejadedcommenter7371]

@@rpkelly3825 Would you like for people to invent a brand new, creative, original phrase used to validate your opinions?

[@suedenim6590]

Instead of helping improve vulnerable people's lives they want fake snow, not even in the desert, oh no that's too easy, on a fake island they've built off the shore of the fkin desert land!!! Sometime's I feel ashamed to be the same species

[@Marcus-cc72]

The entire city (or even country) were planned with help from consultants. These people are smart - good at constructing a business case and proving on paper that it works. Problem is they never see to it till the end - so the implementation falls onto the sponsors of the projects who were neither skilled enough nor have enough care to it. If something breaks then it get blamed on communication breakdown.

[@peteroehring695]

When I first saw pictures of the new Dubai I felt there was something amiss. It didn't seem natural, it lacked some humaness. If you look at organic cities which developed over the centuries, they are natural and more interesting.

[@reya346]

It's definitely glitzy and super modern but has no soul somehow.

[@SacramentoNativ3]

@@reya346 get ready for the future everything will be soulless if that’s the case

[@angelanellie5631]

Yeah. That’s only because it is being built. As the guy said, it will reach a point where it will stop being built and start being lived. Then and only then will it have some soul... for now, you’re right

[@yarawho9984]

The thing is the nature of dubai or UAE generally is sand it used to be a Desert

[@edwardb7811]

@@reya346 It has no soul because it is artificial and inauthentic, built to be the most expensive and biggest. Maybe ten percent of the inhabitants are Emiratis. The rest are poor Pakistani laborers, Egyptian cab drivers, Filipina waitresses, Russian grifters, West European businessmen. The expats don't set down roots. They take their money and go home. They are forgotten the moment their airplane lifts off.

[@anthonyw9129]

200 years from now: it was aliens

[@goeke1526]

Best comment everr

[@bickieditch9168]

Underrated

[@ManaSamaLover.]

LMAO

[@unknownmotherkoose8868]

Don't forget that the show will be collapsing after a local man said well, they just throw sands with a machine to build it one by one.

[@Bellapink96]

Atlantis

[@theyouth7690]

Dubai is like when the rich kids of the school team up for a project and then spend too much money on aesthetics and making it look cool when some parts don't even work.

[@MT-lp1cp]

Exactly

[@robinhay43]

I read that they have to truck out over 30% of sewage (which is illegally being dumped) because they didn't bother keeping up with building sewage piping. Absolutely disgusting.

[@jaburadvocacia261]

great content, beautiful presentation and very pleasant soothing narration style! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@viablue8143]

I can’t be the only one who thinks that “The World” is incredible ugly. To me it looks like rashes more than anything.

[@xxXitakegabbiesXxx]

😭no fr

[@boredom4475]

Seriously tho

[@_wyn0tgas]

IKR, the fact that it’s not even close to being accurate

[@qrtso]

gives me anxiety just looking at it

[@CottonEdits]

I thought it was all fine until I looked at America (they just ignored the existence of what? five countries??) and the Spaghetti Islands TM (I think they're supposed to be Indonesia and the other islands? Where Australia went is still a mystery) . It just looks so *absolutely* wrong TT_TT

[@Sanchez792]

Fun fact: Dubai has no oil, hence they depend heavily on commercialism , property and tourism They were the worst affected emirate during economic Recession. Most of the properties in Dubai belong to a neighbouring emirate which actually has oil.

[@soleiltounsi6754]

Dubai belong to UAE. UAE has gas and oil. More than that, if you are a professional criminal in your country, you will be well welcomed in the kingdom of the money laundering.

[@Sanchez792]

@@soleiltounsi6754 This is like saying if a country has oil, so do the states coming under the country. You need to understand the Government system in UAE is quite different. It's a federal presidential elective constitutional monarchy, so each emirate decides its own source of income depending upon the resources within their Land area, hence Abu Dhabi will not give it's oil reserves for free to Dubai just because they both come under UAE. They just help each other out from time to time, but nothing comes for free. So Dubai has no oil or gas within its land area buddy.

[@matskurz2802]

This is not really correct…. Back in 1990 Oil was one of their most important incomes but because of the massive Oil production and the compared to Abu Dhabi relatively small deposits they started to build up alternative methods to make money like the real estate projects which are a more important income source than oil today and in the future as the oil deposits become fewer but oil was still the starting financial power that they needed for all these projects besides the modern slavery

[@Sanchez792]

@@matskurz2802 Their massive power was tax free country with massive influx of expatriates actually, Dubai has a very little share in comparison to Abu Dhabi in Oil reserves, Dubai's oil reserve shares have been dropping a lot since 1990s, it's not a viable option anymore to depend on oil for Dubai actually.

[@matskurz2802]

@@Sanchez792 Yeah but the oil gave them the starting money they needed pls read what I said you literally repeated half of my text xD

[@nikhilkay1]

Singapore, Tokyo and Melbourne are some of the best designed cities in the world. Not Dubai and UAE's cities which are built using modern slavery.

[@thesauce1682]

You don't know what slavery means, stay in school kid 😔

[@Themostfluffiest]

@@thesauce1682 Well, Dubai is built on indentured servitude, a particularly violent one too, which is much closer to actual slavery.

[@The0riginalpr0]

@@thesauce1682 dude they are actually slaves look it up

[@drianppppp502]

Tokyo???

[@Cursegust]

@@drianppppp502 Why not ?

[@lizd2943]

"We have all this open area we can build in." "Let's make artificial islands!"

[@drolzak7]

The Dutch: Let's build more land so we can house more people and create more farmland, which is actually useful and supports our citizens and economy. Dubai: hehe, pretty palmtree, sand go brrr

[@SamiiRSMT]

Weirdo

[@mfra959]

Dubai island made Mostly only for Business, Tourist, or look rich

[@shawnnaidoo5522]

I’m dead 🤣sand go brrr

[@nuunuu5143]

dutch literally colonize some country. sit down

[@melonzpip1776]

@@nuunuu5143 almost every country has colonized other countries though?

[@dianebrooks1859]

The ocean will eventually reclaim stuff like this. Always extremely costly, overly useless, and forever needing upkeep or it'll sink (many similar projects are already sinking)

[@automaticmattywhack1470]

While I agree with you, I have to take issue with the phrase "overly useless." If it's useless, it has no use and therefore cannot be overly useless. 😁

[@dianebrooks1859]

@@automaticmattywhack1470 hahahaha it's just a figure of speech to signify that's it's not only just useless, but super duper massively overly useless

[@automaticmattywhack1470]

I'm glad you realized that I was joking. Too many people these days would have gotten upset.

[@itsclemtime2357]

These were made in 2003. It’s 2020...what a waste of money..

[@angelaberardo9204]

Theyre as old as me smh

[@hiffahyphae6707]

They’re older than me

[@adobereviews1626]

200 years from now: it was aliens

[@srishtiarora3781]

I came to know now

[@kap1526]

It took them like 5 years to build this even more. Its not there from 2002

[@TobiasSchoenke]

This was great - Thanks

[@FieldBoy111]

looks like a giant logistical pain in the ass of a highly expensive project.

[@josepho3366]

They could’ve just made the palms or whatever and just ditched the world/universe altogether.

[@NathanAEnver]

"...Shaped like map of the earth.. " Southeast Asia : Bruh..

[@angel_cat]

Hahaha.

[@noom09]

Its more australia

[@northvalley06]

Video game setting set to "low"

[@punbug4721]

Why does Australia/New Zealand/Indonesia look like a dog's head? lol 2:08 EDIT: Timestamp.

[@arafadhwang4119]

we always forgotten, get used to it

[@notashiq4211]

When u build the largest house in Minecraft but lazy to fill it up

[@plinyelder8156]

*too lazy

[@DudeNoob]

is this grian?

[@adeleasofea8134]

Ooo man, what can i say abt u...such a genius with words..it stick right away..keep it up...

[@armaanwest5380]

*Grammer has left the chat*

[@eggchomp]

Armaan West oh god, this is too perfect. Grammar*... Looks like spelling has left the chat.

[@vatsmith8759]

The phrase 'more money than sense' springs to mind.

[@thankyouverymochi]

I love how the guy narrating this story present the story in developer’s perspective first, and then show it in a different perspective later (ecological problem, and aftermath impacts).

[@miragerealms2694]

When you get lazy on your minecraft build:

[@sarulllfnm7446]

Mirage Realms lmao me

[@Sam-rk3ng]

Actually relatable

[@lenny_1369]

I can't see the sitting creature dammit

[@mazzar9633]

Copied

[@miragerealms2694]

@@Kiror0_ i didnt even know that..and to think different people cant have the same thought..smh

[@Grogthewhale]

Dubai is so rich they can throw billions into a project and forget about it

[@demef758]

That sounds to me like one of these new "USA infrastructure" programs that are being handed out like so much penny candy.

[@karlslicher8520]

How about they build a single mountain ridge so they can have a sniff at the second most essential supply every human needs. It doesn't need to be actual bonded sand if it only needs to last untill the oil comes back as hurricane winds to sandblast that plane flat again.

[@deathvalleyalex9485]

Quite a few of the rich in some of these middle eastern countries have $500,000,00 cars that when they break down they just abandon where it is and go buy a new one . Seems foolish to me

[@Amina-vj1ot]

@@deathvalleyalex9485 while they’re literally still participating in slavery. Since it looks like a dream destination people in asia are told they’ll be able to make more money there n live better but then they take away their passports and give them under minimum wage for these people with this much money. what a fucked up world

[@latifa3757]

No they r not

[@iiiiii7680]

Quite random but it would be kind of funny if the "world" islands started beefing and causing war/conflict

[@__Andrew]

There is a nice bit of irony there that islands built from the profits of fossil fuels will eventually be destroyed from the burning of that very same oil.

[@tomwaitsmencse]

The islands will eventually be destroyed by mechanical weathering not from burning oil

[@PeaceOfMake]

@@tomwaitsmencse He is talking about water levels rising.

[@tomwaitsmencse]

@@PeaceOfMake ya so mechanical weather not burning oil

[@__Andrew]

@@tomwaitsmencse ... What do you think mechanical weathering is?

[@PeaceOfMake]

@@tomwaitsmencse Global warming, in big part is caused by oil pullution, causes rising water levels.

[@jattmehkmarecords4152]

Imagine dubai planting trees all over the world instead of spending million billion on concrete jungles

[@cryamistellimek9184]

That would imply they care about anything other than themselves and that will never happen. They are a bunch of spoiled children in a sandbox who want every other kid to call them cool. I hope the United States because energy independent and seriously hurts their income.

[@dreamgirl1937]

i know right, the world hunger would probably be 50% down

[@patriciahadley2374]

There wouldn't be an economical gain behind such a project. All these ridiculously rich states only think about today and couldn't care a hoot about the future. I wonder how they're going to manage the water situation in the future, with all those thousands and thousands of apartments/villas and swimming pools being built! Also rising sea waters and storms will soon obliterate those low lying islands. I see a desperate future ahead for Dubai! 🥴

[@lakka1148]

@@patriciahadley2374 yep, maybe they learn it the hard way. Maybe not, I don't think they care about people, the environment or everything else than money

[@65tallmax]

@@cryamistellimek9184 US has done some horrible shit too ya know.

[@thomaskositzki9424]

Someone with in-depth Biology knowledge here. one thing is for sure from an biological standpoint - if there was any sort of marine habitat in that place (not just shallow sand with just very few speices) their biome has been completely destroyed. I have heard of marine biomes which were drastically changed just by digging a river entrance a few meters deeper. Digging up the seafloor and changing the current dynamics like that almost gurantees the destruction of any habitat that might have been there.

[@MistySophie]

Oh yeah defiently. I won't say I have a deep knowledge on this (only my second year towards Marine biology), but even one course of Ecology make me really sad for the impact It probably did to the environment

[@irritism1227]

I'm sure their gov't has found a way to blame the citizens for any travesties that have occurred or will occur as a result of this.

[@TheTGOAC]

Ooooohh noooooooo NOT THE WATER BIOME OH GOD UTS THE END OF THE WORLD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEEEE A COUPLE DEAD FIIIIISSSSHHH

[@scarlett6079]

I do not think you need biology to understand the damage that man has done here to marine life. I think common sense and empathy are missing in all these people participating in this nonsense project.😒🙄

[@semperfi1042]

Well stated. I agree

[@letmesleepinpeace7052]

Another scummy thing about this is that the workers of these new buildings and hotels are probably all underpaid and still incredibly poor.