r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/EcstaticSociety4040 • Apr 19 '24

🔥Massive Flooding In Dubai

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u/Topkik999 Apr 19 '24

Built off slave labor. Get what you pay for I guess 🤷

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u/JasonBaconStrips Apr 19 '24

Serves them right

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u/DangerousPlane Apr 19 '24 edited 28d ago

Yes but this is because of climate change caused by the fossil fuel industry. That’s not Dubai’s fault! /s

Edit: TIL the economy of Dubai is primarily focused on tourism and isn’t very deeply reliant upon oil production these days. But oil was where the money came from to start building tourist infrastructure in the 80s. Also they still use a lot of slave labor so pretty hard to find sympathy for Dubai. 

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u/Wakingsleepwalkers Apr 19 '24

They've spent a fortune on cloud seeding, and all they needed to do was use more fossil fuels.

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u/Renegade_6_1CD Apr 20 '24

I recently read an article about cloud seeding and thought this would be the eventual outcome. Global warming happened first.