The nearly 1 in 5 kids who have asthma around our ports know exactly why they’re sick, but they won’t get any relief if the Port of Long Beach moves forward with its reckless scheme to appease the giant industry shippers and trucking companies.

In a telling exercise with 5th graders at St. Lucy Elementary School in Long Beach, Elina Green of the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma (LBACA) asked the students to illustrate where they thought the pollution comes from in their own neighborhoods.

If a 10-year-old can easily sketch who and what is responsible for our dirty air, then the real lesson is for the Long Beach Harbor Commissioners: This child doesn’t need another band-aid. He is begging for a cure.