‘I’m surrounded by millions of people but I could still die from the heat’ – This is climate breakdown
The Guardian · · g104515
He went to Saudi Arabia to perform the sacred hajj pilgrimage – then the heat came. This is Zirrar Ali’s story Location: Mecca, Saudi Arabia Disaster: Heatwave, 2024 After a transformative experience in Iran, Zirrar Ali quit his corporate 9-5 job and began travel writing . Seven years later, he and his elderly father were participating in the sacred five-day Muslim pilgrimage, the hajj, when temperatures soared to more than 51 C. The c limate crisis has already made peak temperatures in Mecca about 2 C hotter than in pre industrial times. Continue reading...