• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    Have you tried separating your recycling out? It’ll help offset the cruise ships that each put out around 250,000 cars worth of straight up pollution a year, without factoring in other impacts.

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      11 months ago

      And thats just the cruise ships imagine how much cargo ships output, admitedly cargo ships actually serve a purpose. Cruise ships are idols to our decadence and hubris.

      I dream of bloody knives and car bombs.

      • Praise our cargo ship overlords for bringing clothes that rip after the third wash and electronics that malfunction after half a year to us!

        Joke aside, they are integral to the global economy, but we could cut back a lot on wasteful production and consumption, reducing the transportation needed.

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      The solution to that, the systemic impersonal solution, is going to be ending the production of single use plastics. While there’s little you can do about recycling, you can imagine if you’ll be complaining about that.

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        11 months ago

        Also if we removed single use plastics, but didn’t dramatically cut back on everything we do that uses them, then we’d create more pollution with alternative methods trying to fill the gap. A global change is unavoidable, whether it is chosen or forced upon everyone by circumstance.

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          This is part of the issue that a lot of people don’t get.

          Plastics are, largely, petrochemicals. We have plastics because we have oil.

          Use glass because it’s more recyclable? Glass is heavier and more fragile, meaning more cost to ship and more breakage in transit.