CSPAN2 Chip July 5, 2024
By air pollution. In the 1970s, none of us kids realized our parents had been dealing with this for a generation. But we felt it in our lungs. If you were outside for a couple hours playing sam on baseball, whether you had asthma or not, your lungs got constricted, your eyes would tear up, you would get bad headaches. I remember this so clearly. You know, wed be playing baseball or skateboarding, which is a really popular thing. And we come in and it wouldnt be because we fell. Wed come in because we felt so, so ghastly. And my mom, the scientist, would just say, oh, its smog, go lie down. Her...