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I fear I am indirectly responsible for a substantial body count just by helping to build a company that eventually placed itself solidly on the wrong side of the energy transition, but I do not yet have a meaningful number for the C02e -> human life conversion.


It's about 10,000 deaths per year per CO2e PPM from 2080 to 2100, mostly based on this paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99156-5




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