Death toll from heat at hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia passes 900

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OK, so hear me out. The Saudi king is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. Since the Hajj is now becoming dangerous for the faithful because of climate change, that means that the Saudi king needs to act to protect the Hajj and the Two Holy Mosques. I.e., the Saudi king has a religious responsibility to act on climate change, by clamping down on CO2 emissions and curtailing hydrocarbons extraction. It's the will of Allah, man.
- what's that? they couldn't hear you over the sound of money
  
  🪙 🪙 PARDON?? 💰 💰
- Dibs on holy jihad to end climate change
  
  Anti-fossil fuel butlerians?
  
  Climate change is a real jihad for sure
  
  Taylor Swift private jet kamikaze
- He'd sooner air condion the whole area.
- At least in what they say they certainly recognize this. The middle East as a whole talks about climate change much more than the US in my experience, mostly because to them it is an actual existential threat. Money is money so I'm sure they'll keep extracting oil while it makes money, but every single middle Eastern economy's goal has been to diversify from oil for many decades now.
- Large mirror arrays to send the heat back into space instead of onto the pilgrims
- Or he just installs water-fountains
That's 125.24°F. The yeast in your bread is now dead, and your steak is rare.
- I……. Don’t like this information ☹️
- Seems like about 1,000 humans are rare too.
If it’s for a religious event, is it not part of gods plan?
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Not dead, "received an unexpected early heavenly reward". And if it was catholics or protestants, same. If it was hindu's they'd have prematurely transcended. Pastafarians? Over cooked. All religions are risible!
- That's a sad ending for pastafarians
  
  Think of the worshippers of fine carpentry, who drink sacramental varnish. A horrible end. But a lovely finish.
Not long before they install sealed, air-conditioned walkways for the well-off.
The others... well, best of luck.
- have you seen even pictures of the Grand mosque? I have no doubt that what you described already exists....
  
  This is still in the works: https://kasifiz.com/english/abraj-kudai-the-rising-giant-the-worlds-largest-hotel/
keep in mind that the Hajj can be a pretty grueling rite even before adding in extreme heat
There is a certain poetic justice in Saudi Arabia becoming uninhabitable as a direct result of all the dinosaur juice they dug out from under it.
Although as usual the people responsible will feel no effect as they sit in air conditioned palaces, grifting even more money to try and build a pointlessly long, tall and narrow city.
should switch to midnight services maybe
- Is the issue here really that they were practicing their religion, or is the issue the 125°F heat?
  
  you can simply choose not to commit suicide by willingly going to a place thats 125° and standing in the sun
- if you hate Muslims and think they're stupid, just say so and don't beat around the bush. anybody with any sense of empathy and an adult brain should understand that people have religious duties they feel a calling for and that being religious doesn't not earn somebody painful death or callousness from society upon it.
  
  I’m not empathetic to people who practice a religion where they believe homosexuals are morally wrong.
  My adult brain comprehends that just fine.
  
  Sounds like OP looks down on religious zealots. I get the impression that they would have equal distain for people of other religions who choose follow their imaginary friend, and aren't singling out Muslims.
  
  OP said nothing about Muslims specifically.
- Well, yes, but the individuals involved are not the main point here. The point is the earth is getting hotter really quickly and humanity needs to pull it's head out of its ass and stop causing it.
  As this trend continues we're going to see more and more situations where previously safe choices have suddenly become unsafe and situations where there are no safe choices. Focussing on individual "bad choices" by people in developing countries is, sorry, idiotic and tragic.
  Climate change will eventually affect you or someone you care about and when it does there will be some dufus on the internet going "duh, shouldn't have bought a house in tornado alley" or "don't drive through floodwaters, fool" as if it was your fault. Maybe then you'll remember this post but probably not.
- Great humanist values there, pal 👍
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