Het was gisteren Wereldoceanendag, ofwel ik loop met het volgende schrijven weer eens achter: een schrijven van Stand.earth (Greenpeace) van gisteravond vestigt de aandacht op de cruiseschepen die in enorme aantallen en in hoog tempo de zeeën en oceanen van ons aller thuis de aarde naar god helpen…… (en dat samen met alle andere op met stookolie gevoede motoren van schepen) Oceanen die zo belangrijk zijn voor het leven op aarde en die het grootste deel van de aarde bedekken…..
Nog een cruise maken? Denk daar nog eens over na en zie wat er gebeurd als er een besmettelijke ziekte uitbreekt aan boord…..
Cruise ship pollution, unmasked
Kendra Ulrich, Stand.earth
Today is World Oceans Day. Now I get that this may sound like just another UN holiday, but it was created for an important reason: our oceans are under threat.
One of the most insidious culprits? Cruise ships.
Oceans provide most of the oxygen we breathe, they’re a major source of our food and medicine, and help regulate our climate. But none of this has stopped cruise ships from treating our oceans as their personal dumping grounds, or from polluting fragile marine ecosystems…until now.
This World Oceans Day, we’ve joined forces with port communities, frontline activists, and organizations all over the world to shine a light on the dirty practices of the cruise industry and ramp up the pressure on cruise majors to clean up their act.
Will you watch and share our new animated video exposing the true nature of the cruise industry?
Don’t have Facebook? You can still spread the word by retweeting our post on Twitter here, or watching it on YouTube and emailing your networks.
The shady practices of the cruise industry were recently thrust into the spotlight after reckless decisions from cruise executives led to tragic outbreaks of COVID-19 on board – with some passengers and crew remaining trapped at sea for months. This was just the latest example of the cruise industry’s profits-before-people approach gone terribly wrong. And this World Oceans Day, we aren’t going to let them off the hook.
What have we got planned today? All day we’re going to be inundating cruise executives with our messages on social media, and then at 12pm PT, we’re hosting the first-of-its kind global digital rally against cruise ship pollution. Live on the call, we plan to e-deliver a powerful petition with over 47,000 signatures from concerned citizens around the world – all calling on cruise majors to clean up their act before returning to our oceans.
Due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19, the cruise season is currently suspended in many parts of the world, and the industry’s reputation is in tatters over their disastrous response to this crisis.
If we can get our new video seen by tens of thousands of people around the world, we know it will catch the attention of cruise companies who are already anxious about boosting their bookings and desperate to save their struggling share price.
Click here to watch this eye-catching video on cruise ship pollution, and help increase pressure on cruise majors to get serious about protecting people and the planet if they want to return to business.
If you’re not on Facebook, you can share it on Twitter here, or watch it on YouTube instead.
Over the past few years, Stand.earth has been shining a light on several key industries whose environmental impact is staggering, yet often sheltered from public scrutiny – like the cruise industry. With the support of over 100,000 concerned people like you, we’ve been pressuring Carnival, the largest and most influential actor in the cruise sector, to change its polluting ways. There is now a global coalition of organizations, grassroots activists, and cruise port communities working together to transform the cruise industry and protect our oceans from dirty waste and other ship pollution. And this movement is growing by the day.
Today we’re drawing on our collective power to make a huge splash on World Oceans Day, and send cruise companies a message they won’t be able to ignore. Let’s get started by spreading this video from coast to coast to coast.
Thank you for taking a stand.
For the oceans,
Kendra Ulrich
Shipping Campaigns Director
Stand.earth
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