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Cutting Carbon Pollution Could Save Health Care $

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Some 300,000 premature deaths could be avoided by 2030 if the U.S. abides by the ambitious Paris Climate Agreement, according to a new analysis. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.

0:22.7

J-P. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T dot CO.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:33.6

This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher Entagata. Got a minute?

0:39.5

The Paris Climate Agreement pledges to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

0:46.2

But really nobody, and certainly not the United States, has really laid out the plan to get there.

0:51.1

Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke University.

0:53.8

So we wanted to model

0:56.2

what would be the effects of actually putting into place policies that would get us to a level

1:02.9

that we've pledged to reach. Shindell and his colleagues forecast that to stay within two degrees

1:07.7

C, we'd have to electrify nearly every car in the nation, and we'd have to get

1:13.2

more than half our power from renewables. And if we do all that, in addition to keeping warming in

1:18.9

check, the researchers estimate that we'd avoid nearly 300,000 premature deaths due to air pollution

1:25.1

in the U.S. by 2030. And they say the health-related financial

1:29.7

benefits of that clean energy conversion amounting to $250 billion over the next 15 years

1:36.5

would likely outweigh the cost of implementing all that new technology. The analysis appears

1:42.3

in the journal Nature Climate Change. Big caveat. A lot of politicians

1:46.6

these days don't think on 15-year timescales. They're looking only as far as the next election.

1:52.9

Right, but you start putting in these policies, and you know, you see the benefits for public health

1:58.1

the same year the policies start to go into a place.

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