Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt from paragraph 5 in the text.

For all our success, there are still dangerous run-offs of toxins and pollutants into our streams; communities that don't have the knowledge or the resources to fully protect their water; regions where the wrong kind of development threatens our hard-won progress . . .

How do the underlined words and phrases advance a point of view?

A.
They appeal to people's logic, suggesting that processes of change are slow and complicated.
B.
They create a bandwagon effect, claiming that groups of people can make big changes.
C.
They use parallelism to highlight the importance of growth in a community.
D.
They appeal to people's emotions, implying that clean water is a community-based need that affects all of us.