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Climate change kills people. Each kilotonne of CO2 is calculated to lead to one extra death from climate change:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0232...

So these protestors saved 26 lives.

Of course, the potential death toll from climate change is infinite, since we will never be able to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere in any meaningful way (we would need to recreate the Carboniferous period or the Azolla event).



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