Climate advocates warned that urgent action on fossil fuels is needed to avoid more deaths.
Medical team members evacuate a Muslim pilgrim, affected by the scorching heat, at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024.More than 1,000 people participating in the Hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, have died as of Thursday as temperatures in the holy city reached 125°F at the Grand Mosque.
“The Hajj is considered one of the Five Pillars of Islam, along with belief in Allah, prayer, fasting, and charity. It is intended to be a sacred part of life,” Climate Defiance wrote. “Due to profit-driven, fossil-fueled global hearing, it is now a part of death.”tally based on official statements or diplomats’ reports.
“There has been a noted uptick in heat-related deaths as global warming gets worse but I have never heard of anything like what has happened over the Hajj in Saudi Arabia this year,” journalist Séamus Malekafzali“There is already significant infrastructure to deal with the Gulf Arab heat around Mecca and Medina, but I don’t know if there is a way to outpace the massive amounts of heat and humidity that is going to beset southwestern Saudi Arabia,” Malekafzali continued.
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