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    They deposit millions of pounds of shit and other waste into oceans.

    They use so much fuel they led to this story.

    They are floating petri dishes of disease outbreaks. There's even Netflix docs about it.

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    Wouldn't a roadtrip be similar environmental impact? A cruise ship transports large amounts of people

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    IIRC the fuel burned by those things is like the bottom of the barrel and is significantly worse for particles and stuff compared to more refined fuel used for car or trains for example

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    and they just blow the exhaust into the water.

    Many cruise lines have been caught dumping trash in the ocean illegally, or filling up landfills in small coastal towns.

    https://alaskapublic.org/xx-statewide-news/2020-02-26/cruise-ships-dumped-more-than-3-million-pounds-of-trash-in-juneau-last-year

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    A cruise ship transports large amounts of people

    who shit in the water and give each other fecal-oral route diseases. I have idiot family members who like cruises and they've all been hospitalized for diseases like: Hepatitis, COVID, and the very popular Norovirus where you barf and shit yourself for three days.

    Fun! all inclusive!

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