{"id":74756,"date":"2017-12-30T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-say-air-pollution-will-be-our-top-killer-by-2050"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:07:23","slug":"scientists-say-air-pollution-will-be-our-top-killer-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-say-air-pollution-will-be-our-top-killer-by-2050","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Air Pollution Will Be Our Top Killer by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-air-pollution-will-be-our-top-killer-by-2050.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone suggest how we can prevent this from happening to us?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: Air pollution and global warming will ascend to the top cause of death in the next three decades, say researchers from the University of Southern California. The scientists add that the polluted air will lead to a rise in lung disease, heart attacks, and strokes. [This article first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a> website<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A pair of expert scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles says that global warming and air pollution will ascend to the top cause of death due to \u201cischemic heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing cite nearly a dozen studies on the effects of air pollution on human health, experts Caleb E. Finch, Ph.D. a molecular biologist and Edward L. Schneider, MD predict that.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/scientists-air-pollution-top-killer-2050-global-warming-health\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/scientists-air-pollution-top-kille...ng-health\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone suggest how we can prevent this from happening to us? Summary: Air pollution and global warming will ascend to the top cause of death in the next three decades, say researchers from the University of Southern California. The scientists add that the polluted air will lead to a rise in lung disease, heart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74856,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74756\/revisions\/74856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}