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What is the economic value of having a livable planet?
by canofbars 7y ago
What is the economic value of having a livable planet?
- arpa 7y agoBan fucking cruise ships.
- Brakenshire 7y agoCruise ships or shipping in general has quite a low impact on the climate. You're probably thinking about those articles which say that 8 ships produce more pollution than all cars in the world, but that is Sulphur Dioxide, which is a local pollutant, but has no impact on climate change, it has nothing to do with Carbon Dioxide or any other greenhouse gases. Also, the only reason they produce so much more Sulphur Dioxide is because road vehicles have strong regulation which require that Sulphur is almost eliminated from their fuel as part of the refining process. Regulations limiting Sulphur in ship fuel have already been introduced and are in the process of being phased in through the International Maritime Organization, and strict regulations already exist for areas close to ports (since 2010) and then in territorial waters in most of the developed world (since 2015). http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/images/PDFs/SOMWME-whitepaper_Sulphur-p2.pdf http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/images/PDFs/SOMWME-whitepap...