Emissions Cheating, Air Pollution, and Health with Hannes Schwandt
Economics Detective Radio
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The Importance of Focusing on the Immediate Health Impacts
People tend to focus on carbon emissions and n the effect on climate change when they talk about a, cars in pollution. In this debate about electric cars, whether government should be subsidizing them, ther something that will come up often is, well, if your power is generated with coal, you're still releasing a whole lot of carbon. And am gn, i think, like its climate changes, one of the biggest threats to to tota mankind, and it's a huge issue. At the same time, those health and aealso, very important, and they are important in the short term.
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