Big polluters: One massive container ship equals 50 million cars
The Guardian has reported on new research showing that in one year, a single large container ship can emit cancer and asthma-causing pollutants equivalent to that of 50 million cars. The low grade bunker fuel used by the worlds 90,000 cargo ships contains ...
The one side of this that concerns me is how to frame the argument to get the NIMBYs to understand the tradeoff between industrial production and pollution, as well as the costs involved for industry to produce their product in an environmentally friendly way. China undercuts everyone by having no regulations and just dumping toxic chemicals into the environment. We can do better, but there is a cost in doing business the right way.
Chinese use polution as population control. Kills oldest first.