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While true, it is quite staggering to visualize 100mx100mx75m of shipping containers to represent what gets lost every year. Yes it is tiny in the global scale
by layoric 6y ago
While true, it is quite staggering to visualize 100mx100mx75m of shipping containers to represent what gets lost every year. Yes it is tiny in the global scale of what is being shipped but wow that is a large apartment building every year getting dumped into the ocean.
- 542354234235 6y ago> that is a large apartment building every year getting dumped into the ocean. To be fair, we should probably visualize the total amount shipped per year. Which, if all the shipping containers were laid out in a single stack, could completely cover the US state of New Jersey or the country of Belize.
- layoric 6y agoAs I stated, "Yes it is tiny in the global scale of what is being shipped". Yes, the reuse of containers is impressively highly efficient but more and more industries are at the scale or significant pollution/externalities comes from small proportional failures. This isn't like dropping 0.0001% of requests on global web servers, dropping the same rate of containers from global shipping means apartment size building being dumped in the ocean every year. Yes, energy is wasted on servers at large scale but this can be/is being mitigated as energy sources move faster and faster to renewable energy. Mitigation is much harder in physical world and should be costed in to resolve/clean up so there is a market to make environment better rather than just treating as an externality to increase margins.