So... The future is Dubai? I am still to hear a better argument in favor of extinction.

This reminds me of a quote from "Stranger Than Fiction":

> Harold: "I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?"

> Dr. Hilbert: "Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes"