[rtkwe]

That place was not meant for humans to exist in it. At least not at the scale it happens right now.

[ehnto]

It's car sized, much of American signage and affordances are designed to be viewed from your car at speed.

[ghaff]

No one is driving down the Las Vegas Strip at speed.

It's about a certain type of spectacle.

[kortilla]

It’s not really any different from other places that require environmental support to make it livable (e.g. New York).

The only reason Las Vegas even has water issues is because of water rights, not anything that makes it inherently worse than the rest of the southwest.

[cwalv]

Its proximity to the Colorado river arguably makes it inherently better than most of the rest of the southwest