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Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGYEnvironmental SociologyName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY1IntroductionEnvironmental Injustice is often considered as the form of environmental racism, whichis caused by building detrimental infrastructure supported by companies or government entities(Grineski et al., 2015). It is a common belief that operation of thermal power or landfillcomposition affects the local environment because it affects habitat, ecosystem and natural air.However, it must be noted that traditional means of power generation has been changed a lotfrom the past, which now depends on wind, water and solar panels due to which environmentalinjustice is quite under limit. On the other hand, local landfilling is found to generate fuel andenergy after conversion. Therefore, the following discussion will highlight the facts that localpower plant or landfill is not an environmental injustice.Local Power Plant or LandfillSomething that is already present and operational, offering more advantages thanconsiderable delinquency cannot be considered as environmental injustice. While considering theviewpoint of Ahmad and Tahar, (2014), it is prominent that local power plant that operatesthrough mechanical energy to electrical energy conversion, emits harmful gases that in turnaffects the environment through global warming. However, Safdarnejad et al., (2015) highlightedthat most of the power plants in the recent years operate through solar energy to electrical energyconversion. Furthermore, Ellabban et al., (2014) added that wind energy to electrical energy andhydropower to electrical power conversion has been widely accepted and adopted by most of thedeveloping countries. Therefore, it can be said there is very less environmental injustice causedwhen renewable source of energy is used for thermal power generation. From the figure 1, it canbe identified that electricity generation using renewable sources has gradually increased andeventually reduced environmental injustice.

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY2Figure 1: Electricity Generation by Renewable Sources(Source: Ellabban et al., 2014)While concentrating on locally constructed power plant, the scenario will not be similaras the usage of wind and water cannot be considered. This is because both of these sources takehuge free land, which is not favorable for a locality. Therefore, power plants need to depend onlandfill gas, solar photovoltaics and bio energy. Some of the advantages of installing local powerplant are gaining cost advantage, limited resource usage, reducing cost of maintenance and easyavailability of human resource. The cost of power transmission using local grid system is alsoreduced.The issue arises from mostly using landfill because such process is found to pollute air,water and soil. Dangerous chemicals and toxic substances including suspended particular matterimpacts environment. However, York et al., (2014) pointed out that production of methane andnatural gas helps in supporting electricity power generation. Most of the landfilling is done in

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