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.
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.
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!
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.
Unpopular opinion, if you venture out into the desert in 125 degree heat because you think a wizard in the sky will be mad at you if you don't? We can afford to lose you.
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.
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.
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.