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Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting To Happen
Daniel_Stuckey writes: Dubai is building "the world's first climate-controlled city" — it's a 4.3 mile pedestrian mall that will be covered with a retractable dome to provide its shoppers with air conditioning in the summer heat. The Mall of the World, as it's called, will become the sort of spectacular, over-the-top attraction Dubai is known for. Shortly after, it will probably become an equally spectacular real-world dystopia.
By sectioning off a 3-million-square-foot portion of the city with an air conditioned dome, Dubai is dropping one of the most tangible partitions between the haves and the have nots of the modern era—the 100 hotels and apartment complexes inside the attraction will be cool, comfortable, and nestled into a entertainment-filled, if macabre, consumer paradise."
By sectioning off a 3-million-square-foot portion of the city with an air conditioned dome, Dubai is dropping one of the most tangible partitions between the haves and the have nots of the modern era—the 100 hotels and apartment complexes inside the attraction will be cool, comfortable, and nestled into a entertainment-filled, if macabre, consumer paradise."
Aw, man, STFU. Another, "I don't have any facts, but I FEEL this is wrong" content-free post from the dickwad, hippie, eco-homo brigade that made Slashdot what it is.
For a community which supposedly values rationality and science, people sure do behave like emotionally-driven, unthinking retards.
Dear Retard,
Go away. My 6 year old daughter has a more sophisticated view of the world than you do.
You suck, and are making teh internet suck just by you being here.
The LEAST you could do is do one minute of research before clicking "Submit". Just ONE GODDAMNED MINUTE, but NOOOO... "Derp de derp... it's in a desert, right? And... um... last time I checked, nucular plants need, like, helOOOOO... um, water and stuff. Derp de derp"
Just go away.