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i know climate science is pretty inaccurate at the moment and its difficult to predict the effects of lowering carbon emissions but just as an interesting topic i was wondering roughly how many lives each wind turbine will save?
what i mean is how much carbon dioxide will be saved from the atmosphere and how many lives would have been lost by a result of that carbon dioxide being there and melting population sustaining glaciers and stuff.
i was thinking about this after reading an article about a new runway at Heathrow airport in London. the decision to build a new runway was based on the money it would bring into the country weighed up against the 'value' of the lives lost as a result of the carbon emissions of the extra planes.
(please try not to get off topic. if you want to discuss other aspects of climate change please find an appropriate thread or start a new one. also fyi, yes, the government do assign a value to peoples lives as a method of weighing up where money is best spent to save as many lives as possible because you can't save everyone, so please avoid discussing the morals of this or we could end up way off the topic!)
what i mean is how much carbon dioxide will be saved from the atmosphere and how many lives would have been lost by a result of that carbon dioxide being there and melting population sustaining glaciers and stuff.
i was thinking about this after reading an article about a new runway at Heathrow airport in London. the decision to build a new runway was based on the money it would bring into the country weighed up against the 'value' of the lives lost as a result of the carbon emissions of the extra planes.
(please try not to get off topic. if you want to discuss other aspects of climate change please find an appropriate thread or start a new one. also fyi, yes, the government do assign a value to peoples lives as a method of weighing up where money is best spent to save as many lives as possible because you can't save everyone, so please avoid discussing the morals of this or we could end up way off the topic!)