The Real Reason Dubai’s Palm Islands Failed

looking at tall buildings and lines of constructions gives me headache. I prefer natural beauties, like forest, lakes, rocks & mountains etc. A tent with camp fire will be such a luxury.

Those islands have failed, more have been already cancelled. Other issues are stagnant water, sinking, erosion etc land is not selling you name it

This nothing but a commercial for Dubai. Misleading title.

imagine how Dubai would look like if there were no Oil and Gas found? 😂

No sewer system ! Great plan! Raising seas! Lots of money, no long term ideas!

Jimi Hendrix said castles made of sand fallin the sea eventually

They should ask the Dutch for advice. They literally build half a country where there was once only water. And nothing is sinking.

They could have built them inland and been so beautiful too

Well, they’ve resumed palm jebel Ali construction and re-planned the palm deira to be some other type of island. So maybe there’s still hope. Still wasteful, drought with challenges of erosion and other degradation, environmentally unfriendly and financially reckless. I think the worst idea is the “world” islands. They look rather unsightly and require plumbing, electrical and other infrastructure to be installed by the purchaser. This is a huge deterrent I would imagine lol

So what is the real reason it failed? I didn't hear it. The whole video seem to be nothing but excuses of why it's not a failure.

the moment this country lost its reserves would be a show to watch 🍿.

I think one of the biggest issues with further development of those new islands is the fact that there is only a limited number of multi-millionaires and billionaires in the world who could afford to live there or buy or build a mansion or estate home there. They should have included work force housing on site, both as a way to reduce road traffic, and to diversify the local population. The other factor is that, for a lot of European and North American travelers or people wealthy enough to live there, Islamic rules and laws, which the local population grew up with and live by, and not going to attract that many people. Limited or no alcohol? Limited rights for women and the LGBTQIA+ communities? That is going to be a problem for a lot of people from the west, or Asia. Not to mention that living there in the summer months would be uncomfortable at best - most foreigners live in more comfortable climates. While some do like the desert heat, most don't. Add in dust storms and the constant threat of sun burns causing skin cancer, and it's really only a place for people to enjoy during the cooler months of the year.

Well, this channel is allegedly based in the UAE - so get out of the office, travel to the islands and you'll find that most days they stink. They were designed forgetting that stagnant water is not a nice neighbor, and boy, do those islands create a lot of stagnant water.

2008 is an excuse for investors who got ripped off. All of the islands will sink, and they know it. What is worse is that the climate sucks at the Tropic of Cancer in the desert, not to mention they will run out of water before oil.

Except the project hasn't failed. Anyone here can easily search it up. Claiming that the properties are mostly empty is simply not true.

Next time you buy gasoline, think about this!

Organic development vs inorganic. This is what plagues those developing country governments who want rapid development - including China - you can't force it into being - it will always turn people off.

this was bizarr, this whole channel is bizarr. is this like a state sponsored channel?

Stagnant water

Next time, mix the sand, with concrete ...