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Particulate Matter
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171. Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths | People I (Mostly) Admire
Freakonomics Radio Network·Nov 24, 2025
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Reducing air pollution to WHO standards would increase global life expectancy by two years.
“But like if around the world air pollution was reduced to WHO standards, World Health Organization standards, the average person on the planet would gain about 2 years of life expectancy.”
Freakonomics Radio Network · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 2K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts