everybody it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce today's video is called the
cruise ship industry calls for a reality check and I couldn't agree more
if you've been watching the social media reports over the last school year or so
you're probably noticing all kinds of articles out there talking about how
cruise ships are the world's worst polluters nothing could be further from
the truth environmentalists out there want you to think that it's 1945 right
now and that ships are burning coal or bunker fuel or or it's 1970 like Miami
here and nothing cruise ships do nothing but pollute everything they touch it's
absolute nonsense yes cruise ships give off exhaust yes
cruise ships use water but boy the way cruise ships operate in today's
environment they are a far cry from what they once used to be you know cruise
ships now are probably the leaders in maritime advancement when it comes to
keeping the environment clean the water that cruise ships are putting back into
the oceans are is cleaner than the water they're taking out they have
purification systems onboard once the water is used by the public on board
cruise ships this this so-called grey water discharge that people are saying
is polluting the oceans is absolute bunk it's just not true
toxic waste is not dropped off board at all it is kept on board and is disposed
of on land so you know five thousand people going on a cruise ship means that
five thousand people aren't home polluting their hometowns they're all in
one place on a cruise ship at the same time and the cruise ship is under
rigorous environmental standards to ensure that the particulates going out
the smokestack or the water being used the garbage being disposed of is done in
a higher standard than our own cities and towns in which we live again
remember remember you're on top of a billion-dollar investment that the
cruise line has built is going to be in sea for the next twenty thirty year
they're not going to create a ship for a billion dollars that in three years will
be banned from cruise ports around the world that's not how cruise lines
operate they have the highest standards when it comes to emissions most cruise
ships now being built the big ones are now all LNG powered liquid natural gas
that means the the amount of soot going into the air is at an absolute minimum
and when you consider that you're talking about five thousand passengers
and two thousand crew you're moving seven thousand people at a time the
amount of exhaust that a city of 7,000 people puts out day in and day out
compared to a cruise ship you can't compare the two a town or a village put
so much more waste than a cruise ship does it's not even comparable folks
don't get fooled by the environmentalists out there trying to
tell you that by being a cruise ship passenger you're part of the problem
you're actually part of the solution cruise ships are very environmental
friendly they're cutting edge on what they're doing and cruise ports are
quickly adapting what's called Shore to ship power solutions where the ship
comes in docks turns office and off its engines and plugs in to shore power the
future is much brighter for the cruise ship industry when it comes to
environment cargo ships make up 95 percent or more of the entire worldwide
fleet of ships and there are cargo ships out there that are working in
jurisdictions where there are no rules whatsoever cruise lines generally go to
let's say Western world first world ports where the conditions are very
strict foreign missions and and pollution controls and these ships more
than comply anyway that's just my take on it hope you enjoyed the video we'll
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