Source: Green Muze
Just sixteen of the world’s largest transportation ships create the same amount of pollution as all the cars in the world according to award winning British journalist and author of Confessions of An Eco Sinner, Fred Pearce. In a recently published editorial in the Daily Mail UK, Pearce explores the ramifications of shipping goods from around the globe on the planet.
“As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse,” explains Pearce in the Daily Mail. “The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars.”
In today’s world ships are used to transfer everything from oil to electronics and as the demand for cheap consumer goods increase, so does the number of ships needed to transport goods around the world.
The enormous engines needed to power the ships often use as much fuel as small power stations and there are more than 100,000 ships on the seas according to Pearce. The ships operate using ‘waste oil’ (aka bunker fuel) that is high in sulphur content - the result is that the ships’ fuel is extremely dirty and polluting.
The largest ships can each emit as much as 5,000 tons of sulphur in a year – the same as 50 million typical cars, since each car only emits an average of 100 grams of sulphur a year, explains Pearce. “With an estimated 800 million cars driving around the planet, that means 16 super-ships can emit as much sulphur as the world fleet of cars.”
Just sixteen of the world’s largest transportation ships create the same amount of pollution as all the cars in the world according to award winning British journalist and author of Confessions of An Eco Sinner, Fred Pearce. In a recently published editorial in the Daily Mail UK, Pearce explores the ramifications of shipping goods from around the globe on the planet.
“As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse,” explains Pearce in the Daily Mail. “The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars.”
In today’s world ships are used to transfer everything from oil to electronics and as the demand for cheap consumer goods increase, so does the number of ships needed to transport goods around the world.
The enormous engines needed to power the ships often use as much fuel as small power stations and there are more than 100,000 ships on the seas according to Pearce. The ships operate using ‘waste oil’ (aka bunker fuel) that is high in sulphur content - the result is that the ships’ fuel is extremely dirty and polluting.
The largest ships can each emit as much as 5,000 tons of sulphur in a year – the same as 50 million typical cars, since each car only emits an average of 100 grams of sulphur a year, explains Pearce. “With an estimated 800 million cars driving around the planet, that means 16 super-ships can emit as much sulphur as the world fleet of cars.”
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