> it becomes clear that the average American has a bigger carbon footprint. First, this is just not true. UAE's per capita footprint is 21tCO2eq/yr while in th

> it becomes clear that the average American has a bigger carbon footprint. First, this is just not true. UAE's per capita footprint is 21tCO2eq/yr while in the USA it's 15.7 as of 2017. Second, neither UAE nor the USA are close to the per capita footprint targets that we should reach in order to stabilize the climate (between 1 and 3tCO2eq/yr). Just as I wouldn't care much if a murderer killed 15 or 21 people. They are not an example for me to follow. Regarding cooled beaches, here is a Guardian article about it. It cites other luxurious excesses that you're trying to brush off, such as : 30,000 mature trees are scheduled to be shipped to Dubai to help landscape a new Tiger Woods-designed golf course that will be bordered by "22 palaces and 75 mansions". https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/dec/18/artificial-beach-dubai-environment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/dec/18/artifici... > Finally, there is a difference between what is possible in theory and what is achievable in practice. Retrofitting every home and building to go from gas heating to electric heating is not very easy. > Moving electricity to cleaner sources, on the other hand, is well under way with nuclear and solar. In practice, both of these things have to be done urgently, with an extra-focus on energy use reduction. It doesn't matter if rich people in Dubai don't like it. It is also much more easily achievable than building spaceships to Mars, or whatever other escape solution to the growing damage we are inflicting to our planet.