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How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet | It's Complicated

Cruising is booming – 2023 ticket sales have surpassed historic levels and 2024 has seen the launch of the largest cruise ship ever built. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn But as cruise tourism's popularity has increased, so have the pollution problems it brings. To customers, it may not be evident that any problems exist, since some cruise line companies claim to be becoming more climate-friendly. The truth can be quite different. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet. From the Guardian: ‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sail ► https://www.theguardian.com/environme... ‘A good cruise is one that doesn’t come’: Europe’s ports bear brunt of ship pollution ► https://www.theguardian.com/travel/20... Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea ► https://www.theguardian.com/environme... Sources: 0:22 - "50% US citizens" - Source: TIME/Harris Poll https://time.com/6285915/cruise-indus... 2:48 - "4 times worse than flying" Source: the International Council on Clean Transportation https://theicct.org/marine-cruising-f... 2:56 - "Same particulate matter as 1m cars" Sourse Nabu report https://en.nabu.de/news/2017/23046.html 3:04 - "4x sulphur oxides as all Europe's cars" Source: Transport & Environment study https://www.transportenvironment.org/... 3:17 - "25% of all ocean waste comes from cruise ships" - Source: Ocean & Coastal Management journal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... 3:25 - impact on marine life Source: PHAROS4MPAs https://iczmplatform.org/storage/docu... 3:51 - 24% lower if speed reduced Source: Seas at risk report https://seas-at-risk.org/publications... 4:20 LNG engines leak methane Source: the International Council on Clean Transportation https://theicct.org/wp-content/upload... 4:20 Methane traps 80x more heat than Co2 Source: MIT https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-d... The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3uhA7zg Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► http://theguardian.com/first-edition Website ► https://www.theguardian.com Facebook ►  / theguardian   Twitter ►   / guardian   Instagram ►   / guardian   The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs #CruiseShip #Cruise #Travel #Climate #Pollution #News