I feel compelled to defend Las Vegas as a permanent resident: all things considered, we're doing pretty good. Water gets reclaimed and treated before being pumped back into Lake Mead. Massive solar power adoption. Desert living is perfectly fine so long as you're not using all your water rights to do something dumb like growing alfalfa.
(All the air travel for tourism is another story, climate-wise, but that would apply regardless of whether it took place in the desert or anywhere else :P)
> Given panoramas’ use as propaganda for war and colonialism, I don’t want to valorise the past or the present. It’s not hard to imagine incredible uses for the Sphere’s technology. But like the places it best simulates, the Sphere’s ultimate service may be as a refuge from the heat of the world.
Yeah that's an obnoxious take. Having a film about human climate impact in an air-conditioned desert venue is ironic and worth calling out. But not everything ought to be viewed through the lens of "colonialism = evil". It's a big screen.
The author calls the story of the film garbage, I think the article is garbage.
Such a pretentious collection of nonsense statements and non-questions.