What is the dope on taking a cruise?

[araminty]

Let me add my usual disclaimer. Cruising is one of the least environmentally-friendly vacations.

Write me off as a raving greenie if you like, but please consider the environment before deciding on taking a cruise. Even a cursory Google will bring up plenty of scary reports and stats on the unsustainable and highly polluting practices. I worked on a cruise ship for six months in 2005, and was horrified by the waste management, overt consumerism… rave, rave.

Waste food (and there is SO MUCH) is ground up and dumped in the sea. All trash is burned, including plastics, and ashes, yes, dumped in the sea.

Please, for the sake of our children’s planet, do not support this industry.

[Hello_Again]

@araminty

Let me add my usual disclaimer. Cruising is one of the least environmentally-friendly vacations.

Write me off as a raving greenie if you like, but please consider the environment before deciding on taking a cruise. Even a cursory Google will bring up plenty of scary reports and stats on the unsustainable and highly polluting practices. I worked on a cruise ship for six months in 2005, and was horrified by the waste management, overt consumerism… rave, rave.

Waste food (and there is SO MUCH) is ground up and dumped in the sea. All trash is burned, including plastics, and ashes, yes, dumped in the sea.

Yeah I don’t want to be a downer, but between this and the Flag of Convenience thing (of which Carnival is always named in terms of “convenient” application of employee safety and labor laws, and pays scant US taxes while availing itself generously of the services of the US Government) any inclination I had to go on a cruise pretty much vaporized, and I would never, ever cruise with Carnival. And did you know that crimes that occur on board against a US Citizen can only be investigated by US law enforcement on a FoC ship by permission of the captain?

Yes, all international travel is pretty much a negative from a pollution standpoint, but cruises are the worst of the worst, bewtween the massive quanitties of fuel used, and the dumping, alongside other practices I really don’t care to associate myself with.