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.
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.
The two most effective legal things you can do to help with climate are eating vegan and not having children.
There’s nothing “effective” I can do
Just stop eating red meat makes the 70% of going vegan in the greenhouse gas department if I recall correctly.
So if you still want animal products just reduce or stop eating beef and that would do a lot.
Some source as reference https://woods.stanford.edu/news/meats-environmental-impact
I might have underestimate how much difference there is between beef and other animal products. Between methane and land usage they might pollute an order of magnitude above other meats.
here’s a handy graph that helps figure out what you want to drop from your diet: https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/712294bf-4a76-4a5e-79af-ba1aefabd100/w=1350
If you can eliminate beef, chocolate (germany is getting a new sunflower seed-based alternative that tastes basically identical), coffee, prawns, lamb/goat, and cheese from your diet then you can basically feel happy with the climate impact of your diet, in general.
It’s actually kind of insane how little you have to give up.
So if you want to get rid of your children you cannot be vegan, this is just greatttt…
/s in case this is not clear…
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:
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.