Media Mention•Nov 09, 2023
Air pollution threatens life expectancy — strategies like Gujarat’s pollution market can lower this hazard
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he outlines why air pollution is a manifold threat — and ways to mitigate it.
Via Economic Times
What are the key findings of Chicago University’s Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) 2023 study?
Air pollution is the greatest external threat to life expectancy on Earth now — the average person globally is losing 2.3 years. This is also deeply unequal — some parts are relatively clean while in some places, air pollution is taking even more years off a person’s life. South Asia is the most polluted region — in India, breathing the air that exists today over a lifetime means an average Indian is losing about five years of their life expectancy.
What exactly does particulate air pollution do to human beings?