Temperatures hit 51.8°C in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Monday, as 1.8 million people took part in the annual pilgrimage.
  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    53·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    5 months ago

    If it’s for a religious event, is it not part of gods plan?

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      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.