Parallels Between Victims of Mountaintop Removal and Hurricane Katrina

I would like to tackle the topic of the differences and similarities, mostly similarities between victims of Mountaintop Removal and Hurricane Katrina. These are two groups of people that most would think to be extremely different, but in actuality I have already found many similarities between the two. Governmental treatment of both groups of people is absolutely disgusting, specifically the governmental association of FEMA with regards to both groups. Class is a definite issue in treatment of both groups of people with regards to governmental funding in both areas of the country as well as production of fossil fuels. In Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio, coal is the reason that people and the environment are being treated so poorly. On the gulf coast, oil is taken out of that area on a daily basis, yet the states see no profit from it. The education systems in both areas are extremely poor. But to get to the specific point about people who have been and are being affected by both of these terrible disasters, no one is doing anything to better the situation. People are suffering everyday, having coal slurry in their backyards, not being able to go home to their houses because no one has given them funds to attempt to rebuild their homes, becoming sick because of the amount of pollution in the air from the coal pollution, dying because medical records have been lost. I also want to compare and contrast the Millennium Goals established in Agenda 21 and how they apply to situations in both the coal fields and the Gulf Coast. Water pollution has also been an issue, and is an issue in both areas and I would like to address it within my paper. There are so many aspects of this project I want to cover that I am honestly excited about writing it.