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Let's not go down the path of quantifying the 'value' of people's lives, it has historically led to bad things.
Quantifying people's carbon footprint isn't quantifying the value of their lives.
And the value of people's lives is quantified all the time. Any time money is spent to save people's lives, the people who fund it are gonna want to know how much it costs and how many lives it's expected to save. If the cost per life saved is too much, the money doesn't get spent. Without doing that kind of calculation, you either spend no money saving lives, you do nothing but try to save lives, or you just throw a random amount of money at the problem and hope it does enough good to be worth it.
It's also not even necessary in the context of comparing the impact of continuing war to advocating peace. Military equipment doesn't have an inherent right to exist or uses once created, and the people we're talking about already exist and deserve a peaceful happy life as much as anyone else. The choice we do have though is around where we spend existing carbon and the damage we cause in pumping into mutual self-destruction.
I am keenly and painfully personally aware, and I don't enjoy participating in that either. I also consider many implementations to have led historically to bad things because it is near impossible to quantify without some truly horrible and ham-fisted reductionism.