This is a graph showing official number of deaths in Germany for every day since 2020. The red line is for 2026 and the big spike is the recent heatwave. The three days with the most deaths since at least 2020 have all happened just two weeks ago.

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    21 days ago

    The two most effective legal things you can do to help with climate are eating vegan and not having children.

    According to Wynes et al. 2017 PDF (graph), while it’s true that not having children is by far the best thing to try to prevent the anthropogenic climate cascade, veganism is only the 6th most important thing.

    Being:

    • car-free,
    • flight-free, and
    • fossil-fuel free for energy,

    are all more important than being vegan.

    When not just looking at anthropogenic climate, but ethical living overall; then yes, veganism is the 2nd most important thing after being child-free, because animal husbandry and fishing result in the torturing to death of 2-6 trillion fish per year, and on factory farms the enslavement in torturous conditions of 1-3 trillion fish and billions of non-aquatic animals every year.