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Sounds bad - but is this a fair comparison? Each cruise ship takes thousands of people all year round, who otherwise would go on holiday somewhere else (probab
by albertgoeswoof 7y ago
Sounds bad - but is this a fair comparison?
Each cruise ship takes thousands of people all year round, who otherwise would go on holiday somewhere else (probably somewhere far away given the cost of a cruise). You need to do a total comparison of the pollution emitted by the cruise-style holidays vs going on long-haul holidays elsewhere and sum that up to see whether Carnival are really causing 10x more environmental problems than European cars.
I suspect they are but would rather see more valid comparisons that are harder to refute as the headline.
- beat 7y agoIf you read the article, you quickly discover it's not a fair comparison at all, because the headline itself is grossly misleading.
- nottorp 7y agoThe article only talks about sulphur which is a small part of emissions - how do they compare in other pollutants? Since it hasn't been mentioned, I bet they do much better...
- LoSboccacc 7y agowhen I first heard the nwes a couple week ago[1] I was thinking on the same line at the beginning: need to normalize per person, per mile, per year or something, it's impossible to get those number. and yet, they are normalized per year. the number are outrageous even normalized per city https://altreconomia.it/app/uploads/2019/06/Schermata-2019-06-05-alle-13.11.13.png https://altreconomia.it/app/uploads/2019/06/Schermata-2019-0... and the situation only gets worse because when out in international water they use a worse fuel for their engines. [1] https://altreconomia.it/navi-crociera-inquinamento-auto/ https://altreconomia.it/navi-crociera-inquinamento-auto/