Choked: Beth Gardiner with Randi Hutter Epstein
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How the very air we breathe is quietly poisoning us.
Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including over a hundred thousand Americans. It is linked to strokes, heart attacks, cancers, dementia, and premature birth. In Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution, Beth Gardiner travels the world from the halls of power in Washington, D.C. to the U.K., Poland, and India, exposing the political decisions and economic forces that have kept us breathing dirty air. In the United States, air is far cleaner than it once was. But advances have failed to keep up with science, which indicates that even lower pollution levels are causing damage, and deregulation stands to put decades of progress at risk. In other parts of the world where pollution is far worse, nations are scrambling to replicate the achievements of the former standard bearer, the US Environmental Protection Agency. While the future is far from certain, Choked shows us that we hold the power to build a cleaner, healthier future: one in which breathing is safe for all.
Gardiner will be joined in conversation by Randi Epstein, author of Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just about Everything.
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