Dubai from Garvey's Point of View

So I read Meaghan's post and she said a lot about Dubai, but I have a lot to say as well. I was on the phone with my mom telling her what I'm about to say below, and she told me this is the sort of stuff I should be posting. Meaghan and I can work as a team for this blog. Meaghan writes the happy positive stuff, and I give the dirt and the true review.

Dubai is like Disneyworld, like Meaghan said, and as a matter of fact, Dubai has started to build Dubailand. This amusement park will take 20 years to build and will be the biggest in the world with countless hotels, rides, and stores to buy overpriced stuff. Dubai just has to the be the "best" at everything. They make their own islands, they have the tallest building, they will have the largest amusement park, they have the only 7 star hotel, and they have the highest water consumption rate in the world. Their idea of the best is not my idea of the best. We took a bus tour and they talked about how Dubai is a desert, yet it looks so green because of all water they use. They use 500 liters per person per day. This is almost double most other developed countries. The UAE is also the leader in bottled water consumption. Wow, congrats! Mine as well find something else to spend your money on. Now it would be one thing if this water plentiful like their oil, but it's not. They desalinize all of their water. In case you don't know what that means, that is taking sea water and turning it into drinkable water. We have a water crisis on our hands in this world even though most of the earth is covered in water. This is because most water is way too costly and energy intensive to make it realistically become drinkable, but Dubai likes to hold themselves to a different standard. Desalinizing water takes enormous amounts of energy, but Dubai has no issues with consuming crazy amounts of energy to water massive front lawns. It's pointless though. You can't ever play on the grass because it's always being watered. It's just so pointless. My sister just brushes it off, but it really angers me. These people think they can do whatever they want because they have the money to at this moment, but with all of the emissions being produced by them desalinating their water, global warming will make the desert called Dubai too hot to live in. But then they'll just run into their million meter tall building and pump them with air conditioning. Well, the day will come when it will just be too hot for living things to survive in Dubai and they can blame it on people needing to have grass in the desert.

Dubai is not very pretty either. It is always hazy because of the heat and the are construction sites everywhere you go. Even if you stare straight up, all you see is giant cranes. If you manage to make it to the beach without melting first, you see a extremely polluted shoreline. Not only do these people drink a lot of bottled water, but they use the ocean as the trash bin (I hope you all would recycle your bottles...if you use them at all). Because you're so hot, of course you'd want to hop right into the ocean to cool off. No, not in Dubai. The water has got to be 95 degrees. It's rather disgusting. It's like swimming through the warm spot where the kid just peed in the pool, but this time, you can't escape it and the heat doesn't go away. After 20 minutes of death, you decide to get back inside. Then you ask yourself, what is the attraction to living here?

People who like malls and designer clothes and expensive cars and staying inside may like it here, but so far on this trip, I'm a huge fan of third world countries. Dubai can show their wealth, but in my opinion they are just abusing it. Their consumption is disgusting and it is going to effect them the least (global warming is most intense at the poles and less intense towards the equator, fyi). I guess I just don't understand what Dubai is trying to achieve.

Quick Fact: Oil only accounts for 7% of Dubai's GDP