US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he had cancer in connection with environmental pollution in the region where he spent his childhood. The American leader performed in Massachusetts with a speech dedicated to the fight against the consequences of a crisis caused by climatic changes, the American media write.
The Head of State recalled that many plants throughout the country are throwing “toxic substances, smog, greenhouse gases.” “These are the types of pollution that contributed to the emergency of the climate that we are faced with today,” he said. Biden said that he lived in the city of Klimont (Delaware), next to which there were a lot of oil refineries and a strong wind constantly blew.
“When we moved to Delaware, I lived in an apartment building, and a little further along the road was a small school that I went to. My mother took us so that we did not walk. And do you know what happened in the first frosts? I had to turn on wipers to literally wash off oil spots from the glass [car]. That’s why I have, and many other people with whom I grew up – cancer. And that is why for a long time in Delaware there was the highest level of incidence of cancer in the country “, – said the president.