My work in progress

The topic that I am choosing is environmental racism in the south Bronx, more specifically Hunts Point. This has been going on for years and I will be talking about one of the main effects asthma. Most of the people affected will be people of color and of low income.

The reason I’m writing about this topic is because on of the reasons people are so irresponsible is because they don’t see it. They don’t see the effects of their daily activities. Even the people in these neighborhoods don’t realize what is causing the high asthma rates. It is unfair that about 10% of NYC’s population cares for 40% of its garbage. The main reason to write about this topic is because most people don’t think about racism in an environmental sense. When I first found out I thought “oh please” not really knowing or caring. I want people to see especially the people that it effects that this is important it does deserve attention. It affects people all over the world but since we are in New York we should start here.

The audience I hope to reach is people in low income neighborhood and/or the people that this affects. They should feel shocked and appalled and want to take action. I also want this to reach people that create the mass garbage and maybe they will take action to change their behavior because I doubt that anyone will want to take on their amount of garbage or will volunteer to do so when it causes such bad health effects.

The sources that I will use are mainly people that I have interviewed that are taking action to change the way we do things, people from young teens to the elderly that are taking action in their community. Also an expert that deals in waste management and I want to get someone from the city that can help explain the reasons or just get the cities point of view. I also want to use interviews from real people in these neighborhoods to see how it affects them and to get a real story from the mock interview.

My working thesis is something like: The high number of waste facilities and transfer trucks in the south Bronx is causing some of the highest rates of asthma in the country, very little park land and contaminated water and it needs to change. Not sure if this is a good thesis or thesis statement but that’s what rough grafts are for. Coolio

My Topic2

Umm Yea things I'm going to use is interviews tht I have done with people trying to change whats going on in the south bronx and people that work in the city for the recycling department.

My Topic

My topic is going to be on environmental justice and specificlly in the south bronx. I want to expolore why all the burdon is put on poor communities to take care of trash.