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> It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology, but the real cause of the flooding is likely more banal: Dubai is comically ill-equipped to deal with rainfall.

Well that's a funny way to spell "human caused global climate change".

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I think it’s both: climate change as the origin of the freak thunderstorm and their absolute lack of working sewers and drainage systems is the cause of all that water accumulating to the point that we all saw in photos and videos.

Sure, but how much will you bet against the draining system being neglected because the historical climate had little need for it?

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