Le navi da crociera europee producono emissioni di zolfo tossiche equivalenti a 1 miliardo di automobili, secondo uno studio – EcoWatch
https://www.ecowatch.com/europe-cruise-ships-sulphur-emissions-air-pollution.html
di SunEater888
Le navi da crociera europee producono emissioni di zolfo tossiche equivalenti a 1 miliardo di automobili, secondo uno studio – EcoWatch
https://www.ecowatch.com/europe-cruise-ships-sulphur-emissions-air-pollution.html
di SunEater888
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A “car” is real shitty metric.
Bill Burr had an excellent idea about what to do with Cruise Ships.
Not long ago the headline about Sulfur emissions from ships told us about reducing solar radiation, and how cleaner ship fuels meant more global warming. While this was proven I think it’s still one of the worst shields we could imagine.
This is one of the many things the EU should ban, but is too cowardice to ever do.
Why do we fucking allow a floating American elderly home to pollute our waters and cities. Adds 0 value, and only leads to more terrible Nutella shops and Starbucks.
In Lisbon there’s not even a harbour electric connection so they keep the engines roaring all day while the tourists buy some stupid sardine cans souvenirs and eat a custard pie.
why is it always about europe?
i mean, we should comment, look for mistakes and correct them, but constantly dragging europe through the mud for the sake of nature protection (and it is europe that cares the most about it) until you can’t see rivers because garbage, and people can’t see further than 10 meters from the pollution and smoke in asia and some other parts of the world, is stupid and disgusting
Sulfur emissions of ships are constantly reduced in MARPOL annex VI.
With the North sea, the Baltic sea and soon the Mediterranean sea, all major maritime waters of the EU will become emission control areas with even lower sulfur emissions standards. In these areas the sulfur content of maritime fuel has to be lower than 0.1%. In 2025 likely another emission control zone in the eastern Atlantic reaching from Portugal to France to Britain to northern Norway will likely be voted in and established in 2027.
These regs differ from national or EU regs, as national regs only regulated national waters and ports. EU ports already have a 0.1% sulfur fuel regulation, but only for ships at port, after bearth and before departure. MARPOL takes effect on international waters too.
https://gard.no/insights/watch-out-for-new-emission-control-areas/
So that every maritime water of the EU will be a emission control zone with very low sulfur content in maritime fuel.
All while the seas continue to heat up as the sulfur emissions are reduced.
And here I am… trying to offset something by pretending I am ok with cardboard straws.
That is a lot of cars.
What would be great is if they stop cruise ships altogether, it does ruin the planet, the cities where they go and after that it does not even do anything good to the economy.
These cruise ships are insane emission wise. The fact they aren’t banned by now is insane. It’s so stupid to have people floating around on these things, buying unnecessary shit and consuming like there’s no tomorrow. I mean for what? The climate impact these have are far more than cars and those we need to get to work and stuff. I mean take a flight somewhere for vacation is a lot better than to go on a cruise ship.
I firmly believe that the world would be better off without cruise ships and mega yachts. They are floating trash factories. They shouldn’t be a thing unless they can account for all their waste and pollution.
The EU is at [1.6 million t](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/e66a0ce9-029a-44a3-b991-d88b28099fc0?lang=en) of SOx emissions out of [69,3 million t](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/so-emissions-by-world-region-in-million-tonnes?time=latest) worldwide. Means we even beat per capita average handily.
Maybe for once we can actually lean back and demand others act first to reach our level before we fuck over another industry.
also, no wonder they didn’t name the actual emissions data for cruise ships in their article. From the [source report](https://www.transportenvironment.org/uploads/files/2023-Cruise-ship-study_2024-05-07-143832_lapq.pdf), it is 15.7 thousand t SOx for cruise ships, less than 1% of EU total emissions. It is “as much as 1 billion cars” because cars don’t emit much SOx at all.