Sin city

Germinated on the greed and profligacy of mankind, it’s now the fastest-growing city in the US whose every new building rises like a brittle, neon flower out of the scorched earth. Sticking up its finger to the notion of living anywhere close to within its means, it leeches resources from its neighbouring states only to repay them by polluting their airspace. It currently boasts a reckless 360-gallon water usage per capita despite being built on a spot so arid that a sky-diving honeymooner squeezed into a white nylon Elvis suit is more likely to land on your head than a single drop of rain. I’m talking, of course, about Las Vegas, Nevada, the devil’s very own Garden of Eden.

Vegas has always been a repulsive town. It sold its soul long ago to the strip developers and the gaming corporations who have grown fat feeding off the most corrupt of human failings.