A lot of the immigrant workforce in Dubai uses that same lavishly air-conditioned infrastructure as anyone else. They use the bus system and so sit inside the air-conditioned bus shelters. They use what free time they have to visit the malls, too. And so many of the Indian-subcontinent restaurants and markets in Dubai and Sharjah exist purely to serve fellow Indian-subcontinent people, and those are air-conditioned, too.

Yes, Israel uses desalination and has a low carbon footprint, but they also have leadership that has historically been more concerned with water conservation.