[MCN] Montana DEQ, legislature, Northwestern Energy, MEPA, and the 1000 ton rule

[Lance Olsen]

“When attempting to quantify future harms caused by carbon emissions and to set appropriate energy policies, it has been argued that the most important metric is the number of human deaths caused by climate change. … 

Several studies are consistent with the ‘1000-ton rule,’ according to which a future person is killed every time 1000 tons of fossil carbon are burned (order-of-magnitude estimate). If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C …, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.”


Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy 
by Joshua M. Pearce And Richard Parncutt 

Energies 2023, 16(16), 6074; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16166074 <https://doi.org/10.3390/en16166074>



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