There's been a spate of (mainly) right wing talking heads and lobbyists appearing on cable news, shared on facebook (or other social media), and across the press, claiming that pollution and poor air quality isn't harmful to human health. Particularly as we've seen smoke from anthropogenic climate-change related wildfires have staggering impacts across North America and Europe. So what does the science actually say about pollution and zero emission transportation?

And can EVs have an outsize impact on that pollution?

00:00 - Start 00:58 - Introduction 02:41 - How have we looked at pollution in the past? 04:30 - What impacts does pollution have? 05:55 - How complex is pollution modeling? 07:44 - What have models said about EV adoption? 09:30 - Tradeoffs 10:30 - But what about the real world? 13:02 - Conclusions 13:52 - Thanks, and Goodbye! 15:47 - Classic Acorn Segment

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969723003765 ← Observed Benefits From the EV Transition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023001897 ← Metanalysis of Air Pollution Impacts https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198223000970?via%3Dihub#s0040 ← Commute length and mental health https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113416 ← EVs Impact on Air Quality in Turin (Theoretical) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069618309173 ← Does subway expansion improve air quality https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0398-8 ← Impacts of electrification on air-quality in China (Theoretical) https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202206.0340/v1 ← Heterogeneity of pollution from vehicles in Norway https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/completed/pollution ← Pollution and Pregnancy https://www.lung.org/getmedia/13248145-06f0-4e35-b79b-6dfacfd29a71/zeroing-in-on-healthy-air-report-2022 ← American Lung Association - Zeroing in on Healthy Air https://grist.org/economics/true-cost-carbon-pollution-half-of-corporate-profits-climate/ ← Grist, The True Cost of Carbon Pollution. https://theintercept.com/2023/06/11/wildfire-smoke-air-pollution-steve-milloy/ ← Attempts to Roll Back PM2.5 Legislation in the US

Script: Kate Walton-Elliott Presenter: Kate Walton-Elliott Editor, Sound: Kate Walton-Elliott Art and Animation: Erin Carlie Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield © Transport Evolved LLC, 2023

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