{"id":75222,"date":"2026-06-23T05:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/air-pollution-is-a-fixable-problem-just-look-at-how-london-and-new-york-have-cleaned-up-their-acts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:56:28","slug":"air-pollution-is-a-fixable-problem-just-look-at-how-london-and-new-york-have-cleaned-up-their-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/air-pollution-is-a-fixable-problem-just-look-at-how-london-and-new-york-have-cleaned-up-their-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution is a fixable problem \u2013 just look at how London and New York have cleaned up their acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve shown that rapid, measurable progress is achievable in our cities. Here\u2019s how that can now be replicated worldwide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Michael Bloomberg is a former mayor of New York City<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some public health threats make global headlines: Covid-19. Ebola. Famine. When these disasters hit, photographs and videos of people suffering and dying spur countries to respond, international bodies to cooperate and individuals to donate supplies and money. Yet one of the world\u2019s deadliest threats gets almost no attention at all, because it is largely invisible to the public and mostly absent from media coverage: air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, billions of people are inhaling air that is shortening their lives and making them sicker with every breath. Every year, air pollution kills more than 8 million people worldwide<strong>.<\/strong> That\u2019s more deaths than <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk\/research-themes\/life-saving-vaccines\/sub-theme-3-the-big-three-tb-malaria-and-hiv\/\">HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined<\/a>. It hides in plain sight and strikes without mercy, leading to heart and lung disease, cancers and other deadly conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Michael Bloomberg is a former mayor of New York City<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/23\/air-pollution-clean-up-london-new-york-sadiq-khan-michael-bloomberg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve shown that rapid, measurable progress is achievable in our cities. Here\u2019s how that can now be replicated worldwide Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Michael Bloomberg is a former mayor of New York City Some public health threats make global headlines: Covid-19. Ebola. Famine. When these disasters hit, photographs and videos of people &#8230; <a title=\"Air pollution is a fixable problem \u2013 just look at how London and New York have cleaned up their acts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/air-pollution-is-a-fixable-problem-just-look-at-how-london-and-new-york-have-cleaned-up-their-acts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Air pollution is a fixable problem \u2013 just look at how London and New York have cleaned up their acts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}