The Eighth Blunder of the World: Dubai's Islands | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Go to http://stitchfix.com/CASKET to get 25% off when you keep everything in your Fix. Go to http://joinhoney.com/casket to get PayPal Honey for free. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Dubai is known for its incredible feats of architecture. However, in the early 2000s, it was responsible for one of the largest architectural failures in terms of cost, environmental impact, and failure to come to fruition. The artificial islands were meant to awe and inspire visitors. Instead, they crumbled, changed the nature of currents, and to this day are nothing more than expensive sand dunes. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/b2vl4 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world has had seen in the
0:05.0	as an agency. Pal Geneva is so vast.
0:08.0	It can be seen from space.
0:10.0	Built only from sand and rock, threatened by earthquakes.
0:14.6	Dubai is well known for its incredible feats of architecture, from the Burge Khalifa,
0:19.2	which is the world's tallest building currently, to the world's only seven-star hotel to the largest
0:24.2	mall and indoor ski resort. You name it Dubai probably has it. But it gets even
0:29.9	more incredible than that, even more excessive, one could say.
0:34.0	Back in 2003, Dubai announced that they were creating a series of man-made archipelagoes.
0:39.6	The first would be the Palm Islands.
0:42.3	Palm Jumera, Palm Jebo Ali, and Palm Dera.
0:47.0	As the name suggests, these would be magnificent man-made islands shaped like palm trees.
0:52.0	The second would be called the world and it was
0:54.8	going to be a group of 300 islands forming like a map of the entire world itself.
0:59.8	And thirdly, the universe would be a recreation of the constellations.
1:04.7	It sounds so incredible, so unreal, so impossible that something like this could even be
1:09.6	done successfully.
1:11.0	Like seriously, would the workers have to turn on terraforming like an
1:14.5	animal crossing to make this happen? What kind of magic would you need to
1:18.0	possess? Well, apparently with enough money, anything is possible and with Dubai being one of the richest
1:24.0	cities out there this wasn't really much of a problem as the New York Times put it in
1:28.1	2005 Dubai was and is considered a quote glimmering hub of capitalism and tourism.
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