Funny how my brain suddenly fears death, when I’ve been feeling kinda suicidal… but all the sudden, now my brain has decreed: “wait, fuck, actually death is bad, dont wanna die yet… aaaahhhh”
Can you imagine the horrors of SURVIVING an apocalypse… then you have no internet anymore cuz… um… you know… everyone is very DEAD.
I have a drug addiction… addicted to DOPAMINE…
My Photosynthesis¹ is turning Internet-Rays into the rare and legendary DOPAMINE
(¹Internet Light-Ray Photosynthesis --> Interaysynthesis?)
Like can you imagine doing things like gasps read books? …as entertainment in an apocalypse? Books? Stare at dead trees? The fuck?
(Speaking of books… I feel like physical books transmit too much viruses… DRM-Free Ebooks FTW!.. I mean woukd you even touch a book smeared with zombie blood/puke? ewww… sorry my germophobia is kicking in again)
There are ~370 cruise ships currently: https://cruisemarketwatch.com/capacity/
There are ~100000 cargo ships. https://www.virtuemarine.nl/post/top-maritime-nations-largest-fleets-worldwide
Cruise ships certainly aren’t great, but they are a rounding error, not a significant driving force.
You are completely right. It is a bit of whataboutery, but ok. Still, next to reducing buying stuff that is packed onto these container ships and then shipped across the oceans, it is worthwhile thinking about tourism too, which doesn’t stop at cruise ships (which personally I would never board). So reduce the number flights you take, switch to vacations by train, bike or on foot, switch from a combustion engine to an EV etc. I regularly calculate my personal climate footprint (there are a number of websites that help you doing this, most call out cruise ships specifically), and over the years I have continuously improved my behaviors. Added advantage: I won’t catch hanta virus locked up with thousands of others on a cruise ship😝
Or norovirus, or covid or…
Its definitely whataboutism, but I think its important to keep things in perspective. A couple percent efficiency improvement across the global shipping industry would near enough offset the entire cruise industry, and I’d prefer that efforts were focused there.
Just existing produces carbon, and I’d rather people spend carbon on travel and broadening their minds instead of running a 4th fridge like my mate… If only it were that simple…
Wow, if you had asked me how many cruise ships there are in the world, I don’t know what I would have said, but it would’ve been way higher than 370.
I am actually surprised its that high, there aren’t many cruise lines, and they don’t have that many boats. I would have guessed <100.