A heatwave continues to grip large parts of Europe, with authorities in many countries issuing health warnings amid searing temperatures.

Southern Spain is the worst-affected region, with temperatures in the mid-40s Celsius recorded in Seville and neighbouring areas.

A new heat record for June of 46C was set on Saturday in the town of El Granado, according to Spain’s national weather service, which also said this month is on track to be the hottest June on record.

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    6 hours ago

    Focus on being part of the solution: Go vegan. Then tell your friends and family to go vegan. Tell them to do the same to their friends and family members.

    Once we’ve gotten rid of dairy and meat production, we can toy with the CEO’s and prisons.

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      2 hours ago

      Aren’t airplane flights and cars and just waste in general bigger contributors? I’m all for more people going vegan but I remember a carbon footprint analysis saying some of the worst contributors were planes cars waste and then food. Having a kid was the biggest contributor but that’s a bit obvious.

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        Yes, but from a societal perspective, theres value in making cuts in a lot of different places.

        Maybe you can do a meatless Monday, and somebody else will go vegan. Tell the people in private jets to stop flying private, but the family that’s going to another culture and learning and maybe becoming better has benefits.

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      2 hours ago

      Vegetarian is enough to get most of the benefits for environmental reasons. But it’s foolish to wait until that happens, it can’t wait.

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        50 minutes ago

        Source on that? I’d reckon dairy and egg industry equally bad as meat industry. Here in northern Europe dairy and meat industry go hand in hand, that is, when a dairy cow stops being productive it gets ground to beef.

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          I don’t think this is true for eggs. I’ve read that the egg-laying chickens are completely detached from those raised for their meat. Perhaps best demonstrated with the recent egg shortages having no impact to poultry prices.