This is how Dubai copes with climate change

2018 is an increasingly complicated year. Climate change has become a real problem, we are seeing its effects right before our eyes.

A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in October, mentioned in detail that world temperatures, even by only half a degree, will cause extreme consequences. serious and catastrophic period.

Kevin Loria's writer Business Insider has summarized: Only half that degree will make areas more vulnerable to drought face severe droughts, and areas in the impact zone of High intensity heat waves or storms will also face more disasters. These factors may explode large migrations and mass extinctions of animals.

In short, climate change will gradually narrow down the livable areas, especially in places prone to high temperatures.

If you've been to Dubai over the past time, you'll realize that the city's harsh climate and its adaptation to the climate are a concrete example of living under the serious impacts of gas change. What is the post.

The formation of interconnected climate regulating spaces is the way Dubai copes with climate change.

During the long summer season in Dubai, which lasted from mid-April to October, the temperature was so bad that it couldn't stand outside even a few minutes. Frequent temperatures are around 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) and up to 119 degrees F (48 degrees C), with quite high humidity.

How does this city adapt to that climate? It is the formation of interconnected climate regulating spaces , including more than 65 commercial centers, residential buildings and offices with the whole city connected, subway station and parking lots. car in the house.

For certain social environments - an environment where native Arabs and wealthy white foreign stockholders - people can go all day or weeks during the summer without Step outside. You go from your air-conditioned apartment in a residential building to the sky to the indoor parking lot, then drive to your office, park in the house, and take the stairs to the office of the writer's office. skyscraper.

If you need to shop for a few things or receive a gift, there is a retail store, grocery store or entire retail area attached to your office or apartment building.

If you want to spend a Saturday with your family, enjoy coffee with a colleague or enjoy an "al fresco" style dinner and dinner, you can do it right at The Dubai Mall, a neighborhood $ 2 billion complex with 1,200 stores, hundreds of restaurants, cinemas, luxury hotels, Olympic sized ice rinks, virtual reality theme parks and aquariums. Or, you can visit one of dozens of other shopping centers with similar facilities that erase the line between the mall and the neighborhood.

Dubai is extremely good at simulating outdoor scenes inside the house.(Illustration).

Meanwhile, for hundreds of thousands of Dubai migrant workers who are not fortunate enough to live in air-conditioned complexes, Dubai may be a hell in the summer - just like the climate in countries. developing, places that will be most affected by climate change impacts.

Dubai is extremely good at simulating the outdoor landscape inside the house, so that their next large-scale investment project is dedicated to this plan. Dubai Square, contemplated to become the world's largest commercial center, was built around a four-lane boulevard, simulating a spacious street, plaza and entertainment center for concerts. Music and stage shows. It will even have the largest Chinatown in the Middle East.

The true effect of this type of development is that almost all of the social or community space in the city becomes a central shopping destination.

"[In the UAE] the shopping center is not simply a shopping space but also a social space , " Justin Thomas, associate professor of psychology at Zayed University, wrote on The National in 2014.

"The commercial centers are three generations of the same family for an evening walk, where members of Abu Dhabi Readers (a book club) meet to discuss literary works . "

When you can't walk outside in social spaces due to the harsh climate or pollution, you can do that with the indoor space.

If we had to predict what the prospect of our consumer world would be in case it could not adapt itself to climate change, the answer is that it will be like Dubai now.

And for Dubai itself, this city will have to continue to adapt to the harsh climate here. Abu Dhabi Environment Agency announced in a report last year that according to the most serious climate change scenario, almost all of Dubai will be submerged due to rising sea levels.