Knud Jahnke<p>The closure of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heathrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heathrow</span></a> yesterday had 200,000 people not flying. If each flight had a climate impact of 1 tCO2 equivalent, then this would be 200,000 tCO2eq of emissions that didn't happen.</p><p>A study showed that for every ~4400 tCO2eq one human will die from climate change impact until the year 2100.</p><p>200,000/4400=45</p><p>Every day of Heathrow operation will kill 45 people in the future. Yesterday saved 45 people's lives.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateImpact</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flying</span></a></p>