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Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Milford Haven, Southampton and Immingham top the list for emissions of gases and particulates

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shipping is a massive consumer of all kinds of oils, especially fuel oil and diesel.

Want to make a real difference? Stop shipping shit around the world, accept there are growing seasons, grow and manufacture locally.

Suddenly the number of massive ships constantly churning through hundreds of gallons of fuel per hour, and trucks moving shit cross country, would seriously dwindle.

If it isn't clear by now - the power brokers of the world love moving manufacturing to wherever they've made a political deal, and don't give a fuck about the rest of us.

Do I like getting off-season fruit in December? Sure. Do I need to get it from Chile? Fuck no, greenhouses are a thing. How the hell is it cheaper to move that shit 10,000 miles than to grow locally in a hot house? Clearly someone's getting paid.

Sorry about the rant. Shipping is the elephant in the room whenever I hear people complain about cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm with you on this one. Shipping causes more pollution than all the cars. But, slave salaries etc makes good earnings etc, so no chance this will stop as long as someone gets rich. We will probably get a nice apology in the end tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

We will probably get a nice apology in the end tho.

LOL.

Honestly it's impressive how well the media/news outlets have controlled the narrative so well that none of the "environmentalists" ever even mention shipping.

Now who does that benefit? Oh yea, shippers, manufacturers (ships, trucks, cranes, trollies, containers, etc, etc, etc). Instead they focus on cars... The LITTLE GUY. Because the power brokers (e.g. The 10 conglomerates that control all food distribution and production) want it that way.

It's all feel-good knee-jerk nonsense for supposed environmentalists, because that's far easier than taking a deep dive to actually understand what's going on. It's just "cars evil".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's kinda funny that the original carbon-free method of getting stuff from A to B is now one of the worst carbon emitters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I believe this is about air pollution, as in the dirty kind, not co2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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