[Sylvanfan]

I was here for months before I realised – everything in Dubai is fake.

A phoney city, built with phoney money, living on remanufactured basic resources and leaving a monstrous carbon footprint. Now being backed by a petrodictatorship. It is pretty much an extreme version of everything that Freidman talks about in his book hot flat and crowded with an added touch of human rights abuse. Yikes.

Thanks for posting that link.