Michael Greenstone

Michael Greenstone is an esteemed economics professor at the University of Chicago and a co-founder of the Air Quality Life Index. His research focuses on the impact of air pollution on public health, emphasizing that particulate matter poses the greatest external threat to human health. Recently, he highlighted alarming trends in air quality due to increased wildfires in Canada and the U.S., which have significantly worsened the concentration of harmful particulates in the atmosphere.