Dirty Ships

xoxoxoBruce · 11-22-2009, 10:34 PM

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.

Like the spewing of just 16 of those bigass ships, is equal to all the cars in the world.

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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.

Who's to blame?

monster · 11-28-2009, 11:30 PM

looks like no-one cares about the Brits

ZenGum · 11-29-2009, 01:50 AM

You only did this for the clone thread, didn't you Bruce?

11-28-2009, 11:30 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	looks like no-one cares about the Brits __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-29-2009, 01:50 AM	#3
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	You only did this for the clone thread, didn't you Bruce? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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