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People who own or travel on boats are rich and the people most affected by the pollution they spew are not
by agentdrtran 7y ago
People who own or travel on boats are rich and the people most affected by the pollution they spew are not
- graeme 7y ago....this article is about NYC, one of the richest places in NYC. Air pollution doesn't spare the rich.
- Ericson2314 7y agoNYC is not uniformly rich at all. It is only the astounding wealth of the richest New Yorkers that makes it appear so. Who exactly is affected in NYC depends on the dock and wind direction. I have read (somewhere I forget) that air quality is in the mean worse in the Bronx; by no means is the outcome of this affecting all classes uniformly.
- cosmodisk 7y agoWhen you are a billionaire and buy a massive apartment in Manhattan just above a street that has thousands of polluting cars passing by every hour.
- subpixel 7y agoThat’s not quite true. Cruises can be downright cheap compared to a comparable period of time at a hotel. Some of the cheapest cruises of all leave NYC, spend two nights at sea, and return.