The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice’s 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.
The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice’s 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.
Only been on one cruise, but I wondered how much gas would those thousands and thousands of people burned driving around for vacation? Even if they flew, still seems far more wasteful.
Take cruises away and lower-middle class families don’t get much of a vacation. How else could you travel to foreign countries, get free food and a room for under $1,000? It would be $400 (plus a bunch of fees I’m sure) per adult for me to get to the Bahamas.
LOL, my gf, her mom and I went in late December 2020. Talk about dodging a bullet! Might never do it again. My Filipino wife would hardly be impressed by the tropics. “Oh boy. It’s like home except I don’t know anyone or the language.” :)
Cruiseships are still much, much more polluting even though they carry thousands of people. Look st some of the graphs here: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/luxury-cruise-giant-emits-10-times-more-air-pollution-sox-all-europes-cars-study
For example looking at Barcelona, the 105 cruiseships that arrived in a year there polluted 5-6x as much as half a million cars did that year. So by that metric, for 1 cruiseship, you can operate 25000 cars.
One cruise operator alone had a pollution in Europe 10 times that of all cars in Europe. Another cruise operator added another 4 times the European car fleet. So if we were to ban all cars in Europe, that would only compensate 7% of the emissions of two of the cruise ship operators.