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Death toll from heat at hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia passes 900 (www.lemonde.fr)
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what's that? they couldn't hear you over the sound of money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

🪙 🪙 PARDON?? 💰 💰

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Dibs on holy jihad to end climate change

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Anti-fossil fuel butlerians?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Climate change is a real jihad for sure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Taylor Swift private jet kamikaze

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

He'd sooner air condion the whole area.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Large mirror arrays to send the heat back into space instead of onto the pilgrims

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Or he just installs water-fountains