Passengers who booked trips have been told refunds will be issued in monthly installments

Life at Sea Cruises’ first three-year sailing was announced in March and promised passengers willing to fork out at least $29,999 per year

    • psmgx@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      40
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 years ago

      The problem isn’t the ships it’s the insane amount of diesel they suck down. We already run giant ships powered by nuclear reactors.

      • Burninator05@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        28
        ·
        2 years ago

        Honest question: do the use diesel? A lot of big ships when they are not in a nation’s waters burn bunker oil which is significantly worse.

    • Pipoca@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      26
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Cruise ships are pretty big polluters, yes. Cruise passengers have about 8x the emissions that they’d have from a comparable land-based vacation.

      But when people talk about ship pollution, they’re usually talking about non-carbon pollution.

      For example, ships often burn heavy fuel oil, which produces tons of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, and NOX, which depletes the ozone and causes smog and asthma.

      Cruise ships are bad for the environment, but there’s honestly bigger fish to fry. Gas power plants are way, way worse for the planet.

      • Locuralacura@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        2 years ago

        We’re already forced to burn oil to power air conditioners so our elders don’t die in heatwave. Just imagine the inside of a giant Vegas casino without electricity.

          • Locuralacura@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2 years ago

            You said we will still use oil because it’s profitable. I said that we can’t stop using oil, because our earth is too hot, because we are too much burning oil. How am I off topic?

            My point is, it’s not economically viable for an elderly Texan to spend 500 bucks on inflated energy prices during a heatwave, but it’s not like there is a choice. We’re gonna burn it all up because we don’t know how to stop.