Have you ever been walking up a road, and a big truck passes you and as they accelerate, a big black smoke cloud appears from their mufler? Chances are, this truck is using diesel and you can see this smoke linger in the air for a moment before it floats away into the atmosphere or the wind blows it away for someone else to enjoy. Did you know that most cruise ships burn bunker fuel which is 1,000 times dirtier than diesel used in trucks, and they emit more carbon dioxide per passenger mile than train or airplanes (Friends of Earth, 2010).
To relate back to a previous post I've done on how much these cruise liners are paying for their pollution in terms of money and how this is being handled, I've come across an interesting report that states all the fines of cruise ships from 1992-2009. In the report they state what the infraction was, how much they were fined, and what stage the fine and sentencing is in. This report can be found here.
So these companies are being charged, but it does seem to take awhile for them to get charged and go through the policies to get this done, but is the price that they're paying enough? In my opinion, not even close, not with the amount that they're polluting, and the amount that is going unnoticed.
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