| xoxoxoBruce |
11-22-2009 10:34 PM |
Dirty Ships
It appears that those giant cargo ships, hauling all that crap from China to walmart, are killing a lot of people.
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Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An Eco Sinner – reveals that the super-ships that keep the West in everything from Christmas gifts to computers pump out killer chemicals linked to thousands of deaths because of the filthy fuel they use.
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Like the spewing of just 16 of those bigass ships, is equal to all the cars in the world.:eek3:
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James Corbett, of the University of Delaware, is an authority on ship emissions. He calculates a worldwide death toll of about 64,000 a year, of which 27,000 are in Europe. Britain is one of the worst-hit countries, with about 2,000 deaths from funnel fumes. Corbett predicts the global figure will rise to 87,000 deaths a year by 2012.
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Who's to blame? |
