Oceana estimates that cruise ships dump something like 150,000 gallons of sewage into the oceans every day. The ships spew huge amounts of pollution into the air as well, resulting from the mechanics of powering what are in effect floating cities.
So, what is the Mother Nature Network doing about it? They’re sponsoring a contest to give someone a free ride on one of the newest of these monstrosities, the Ocean Oasis. The Ocean Oasis is the largest cruise ship in the world at more than 220,000 tons, carrying thousands of human beings, plus an army of over 2,000 employees.
The Ocean Oasis provides its paying customers plenty of oasis – including refuge from the ocean itself. The ship contains a swimming pool with a surf simulating wave machine, so that people can pretend to swim in the ocean, in a boat that’s spewing pollution into the real ocean. For the true Mother Nature, this new ship provides no oasis at all, but makes the illness of the Earth’s oceans even more serious.
So much for the environmental sensibilities of the Mother Nature Network. It seems that for the operators of MNN, living green is just a pose.
Who can afford a cruise anymore?
This is so typical of humanity: careless wasteful polluting until it all comes to a screeching halt due to lack of resources. How many pirates would it take to capture this floating ship of fools?