Conclusion and Final Thoughts

So I'm in the final stages of my blogging experience on the cruise ship industry and their impacts on the environment. My first thoughts on the cruising industry were that it's a great way for easy transport and a unique travelling resort. After my first few days of researching the topic I learned that this is actually a terrible thing for the environment and it can devastate ecosystems all over the world! The ballast water is what I found to be the worst part of the problem because sure the chemicals from the smoke stacks were harming the air and killing the ozone layer, and yes they were doing far too much dumping into the waters of their waste, but these can be solved with some general efforts and knowledge. The ballast water problems were taking organisms into foreign waters and no matter what kind of research you do, you can't full understand or predict what kind of results will come from this.

After some more research I learned that there are some companies that are aware of what they are doing to the environment, and they are doing things to help protect it, as well as helping communities that are in need of support.

Something that I found out about the cruise line industry that I did not previously know or that I wrote about was that the largest cruise ship in the world could hold over half of my hometown's population. This just astonishes me that there are vessels this big out there, and that they are able to fill them for nearly every trip.

So in conclusion, I would definitely recommend taking a cruise, but I suggest you do your research before hand and try to choose a cruise liner that is attempting to do their part to offset their carbon footprint, and help preserve the environment, because without this environment, these cruise liners will have no product to market.

Cheers