The monetary relationship between carbon emissions and mortality: a review
To date, the majority of work on carbon emissions related to policy has focused on economic cost benefit analysis. A new theory enables the use of the ethically and computationally more straightforward value of human mortality from carbon emissions in climate change policy. Case studies from three different scenarios are examined in order to have a comprehensive analysis of carbon mortality across various socio-economic structures. Alberta, Canada, was selected as a high-income and energy per capita producing society. China was selected as a medium energy producing per capita and consuming nation. Finally, the Sub-Saharan African Region was selected as a lower-income region with decreased use of energy and economic activity per capita. The results are reviewed, along with a critical evaluation of methods that place inconsistent and immoral discounted economic values on human life, limitations of all of the published approaches and future work are suggested. It is concluded that an objective and quantitative number of human deaths can serve as a neutral foundation for policy recommendations to reduce the negative impacts of carbon emissions on humanity.
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[edit | edit source]carbon emissions; greenhouse gas emissions; global catastrophic risk; climate change; energy policy; human mortality; climate genocide
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keywords = carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, global catastrophic risk, climate change, energy policy, human mortality, climate genocide
| Authors | Kaitlyn Burghardt, Uzair Jamil, Joshua M. Pearce |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Organizations | Free Appropriate Sustainable Technology, Western |
| Cite as | Kaitlyn Burghardt, Uzair Jamil, Joshua M. Pearce (2025–2026). "The monetary relationship between carbon emissions and mortality: a review". Appropedia. Retrieved June 2, 2026. |