First clean water, now clean air
Fin Moorhouse's Website, 2023
Abstract
In this episode we talk about the importance of indoor air quality (IAQ) and how to improve it, including the health burden of particulate matter; how many additional respiratory virus infections are caused by unclean air; estimating the total DALY cost of unclean indoor air in the US; how much pandemic risk could be reduced from improving IAQ; how economists convert health losses into dollar figures; key interventions to improve IAQ; barriers to adoption, including UV smog and empirical studies needed most; national and state-level policy changes to get these interventions adopted widely; why classic sci-fi was so influential; and what cultural attitudes does it exhibit that recent sci-fi doesn’t?
