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Originally Posted by Jake Blight
Environmental plans are all well and good. Tax the working man, tell car owners they are killing the planet... yes let's have a go at people flying for work or a holiday, an additional environmental tax and yet.. *draws breath *.. and I quote:
"Shipping produces more carbon emissions than most countries and pollutes the oceans. Will slowing vessels or making them electric do enough? Mark Piesing (iNewspaper) reports.
Every day the clothes, tech and toys that fill the shelves in our shopping centres seem to arrive there by magic. In fact, about nine out of 10 items are shipped halfway around the world on board some of the biggest and dirtiest machines on the planet.
It has been estimated that just one of these container ships, the length of around six football pitches, can produce the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars. The emissions from 15 of these mega-ships match those from all the cars in the world. And if the shipping industry were a country, it would be ranked between Germany and Japan as the sixth-largest contributor to global CO2 emissions".
And the subsidies handed out to these companies is unreal...
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Very interesting. I knew ships were big polluters, but not to this scale.
Why isn't this kind of thing highlighted by the anti CO2 lobby?