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Nobody pretends that polluted air isn’t terrible for your health. Clean up the skies over any dirty city, and the people who liv
Nobody pretends that polluted air isn’t terrible for your health. Clean up the skies over any dirty city, and the people who liv
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2021-02-21
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Nobody pretends that polluted air isn’t terrible for your health. Clean up the skies over any dirty city, and the people who live there will all but certainly become healthier. According to a study just published, when local governments decide to remove the smog, local residents actually live an average of five months longer.
In order to reach so precise a finding, the study’s authors had to do some exhaustive number-crunching, surveying pollution rates and longevity in 51 cities across the U.S. over a 21-year period. Overall, they found that lifespan in all of the areas increased by an average of nearly three years—from 74 to 77—as a result of a host of factors, most notably reduced smoking and improved income. But 15% of the change was attributable to cleaner air.
One of the reasons making air cleaner can have so immediate an effect is that even a little dirt can do a lot of damage. A reduction of just 10 micrograms of pollution per cubic meter of air—a degree of improvement many of the surveyed cities were able to attain during the two-decade-plus period—could extend human life-spans a full nine months. How small is 10 micrograms per cubic meter? Consider that simply by living with a cigarette smoker, you’re exposed to a daily dose of 20 to 30.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for example, is one city in the survey that was at the 30-microgram level before the decline of the steel industry in the 1980s drove the dirt out of the skies—even as it drove jobs out of town. Pittsburgh was one of the biggest winners in the new study, with residents gaining roughly 10 months in life expectancy over what they had when the mills were still churning.
The benefits of cleaner air may even be felt in towns whose skies weren’t that dirty to begin with. Those that began with the very lowest levels still saw health benefits from small improvements. The evidence isn’t yet there to determine whether those benefits would continue growing until the fine-particle pollution got down to zero; one of the cities closest to that, Albuquerque, New Mexico, still hovers around 5 micrograms per cubic meter. But at this point, it doesn’t seem that the benefits decrease. "If it continues to follow what we’ve observed, it appears that there are health benefits down to very low levels of exposure," says Dr. Pope, the study’s lead author.
The next step for both researchers and policymakers is determining which sources of dirt—power plants, motor vehicles, other industrial polluters—make the biggest contributions to particle levels and thus should be most aggressively targeted. "In a difficult economic situation," asks Dr. Douglas Dockery, "where can we spend the dollars that would have the most benefit?"
As with so many other things, President Barack Obama’s coming into power has people hoping that these kinds of questions will be more aggressively addressed than they were over the past eight years. Even during the most heated days of the fall campaign, neither candidate went so far as to promise longer life in exchange for a vote. But a smart environmental policy could deliver just that.
[A] benefited from the downturn in its steel industry.
[B] won the presidential election mainly by promising to increase American people’s lifespan.
[C] can still see benefits of air improvement despite its already clean air.
[D] took measures to improve its air quality after 1980s.
[E] is supposed to take active steps to tackle environmental problems including air pollution.
[F] shows concern about which sources of dirt contribute most to air pollution.
[G] agrees that even improvement in slightly polluted air may bring health benefits.
Dr. Pope
选项
答案
G
解析
Dr.Pope出现在第五段。该段开头提出观点:只要空气的质量得到一点点改善(哪怕是本已很洁净的空气),人们的健康状况还是会随之改善,接着以Albuquerque的情况为佐证。最后一句以该研究的策划人Dr.Pope的话作总结:“如果以上这一点继续与我们观察的情况保持一致的话,看来当空气中的污染物降到很低的程度之时,人们的健康状况仍会继续得到改善。”可见,Dr.Pope对上述观点是赞同的,G项所述与原文意思相符,故为本题答案。
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