Reference no: EM13839628

NAACP Press Release

Summary

The NAACP press release presents the informational report that documents how the health and environmental hazards accruing to coal-fired plants distribute unevenly amongst poor communities. The release (Coal Blooded) associates the communities of color and low-income communities with exposure to the significant impacts accruing to coal pollution as supported by Todd Jealous, NAACP President. Coal Blooded further rates 378 coal-fired plants founded on their surrounding justice performances. Additionally, the score relies upon both demographic factors (race, population density, and income), and toxic emissions. Nevertheless, the release designs a framework that accrues to policymakers and individual organizations to transit from coal to substitute profitable energy reserves. Furthermore, Jacqueline Patterson stipulated that the NAACP is engaged in preserving the health of the underlying communities, nation, and climate. Nonetheless, Tom Goldtooth argued that toxic emissions (from coal-fired plants) are hazardous to individuals inhabiting coal plants' surrounding and further initiate the catastrophic repercussions of climate change. Coal Blooded universally enlightens the world regarding the plants' dirt and also the effects that the coal plants pose on the underlying communities. Ultimately, the release elaborates a connection between coal plants' pollutants and asthma attacks, chronic bronchitis, lung inflammation, and birth defects.

Response

I perfectly concur with Goldtooth's argument that the toxic emissions have hazardous repercussions on the surrounding communities. This analogy is further correspondent to the arguments emanating from a diverse range of the executives at NAACP. Furthermore, I concur with Kimberley Wasserman's stance on shutting down Crawford and Fisk Generating Stations in Chicago. Wasserman founded her position on the fact that the respective coal plants had a significant amount of dirt that further constituted to the high toxicity of the resultant emissions. This Executive Director had great concern for the wellbeing of the communities and individuals that surround the prevailing coal plants. However, I disagree with Coal Blooded's argument that only the communities of color and low-income communities reside around the coal plants and hence are significantly susceptible to the resultant health hazards. This statement has minute reality since the plants' surrounding encounters inhabitation of white communities and also communities of wealthy background. Nonetheless, the toxic emissions do affect not only the surrounding communities but also the entire society as a whole since the emissions constitute to the catastrophic outcomes of climate change. The aspects of climate change stretch past the low-income community to the medium and high-income nations that reside beyond the coal plants' surrounding. Ultimately, I support Coal Blooded's care for the prevailing communities and society at large regarding the repercussions of the plants' toxic emissions on the people's wellbeing.

Reference

NAACP Report Reveals Disparate Impact of Coal-Fired Power Plants. (2012). NAACP Press Release, Pp. 189-190.

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