The Emaar Malls Group is building a 12.1-million-square-foot shopping and entertainment center in Dubai. (Via Sara Zucker.)

A massive air-conditioned indoor mall, amusement park, parking lot, temperature-controlled aquarium, and ice-skating rink in one of the hottest places on Earth that is accessible to most people exclusively by greenhouse-gas spewing airplanes?

Now that the indoor ski slope is up and running, I think this is exactly what the world needs.

Clearly, this sort of diabolical urban planning could only be dreamed up by an oil-rich monarchy with zero compassion for future generations and a vested interest in using all the oil it can’t horde or sell for an exorbitant price.