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The Shipping Industry Is Destroying Our Oceans And We Are To Blame.
The shopping industry ships junk we don’t really need from one part of the world to another.
If you haven't seen the documentary “Freightened” yet and have concerns about the state of the earth’s oceans, you might want to view it. I have known for some time there has been an issue with the cruise ship industry and ocean pollution (see Cruise Ship post) but until I viewed Freightened, I did not know the extent of the degradation of our oceans.
The most notable point of the film is the filthy nature of the fuel that freighters run on. It is basically the waste of waste from a theoretical barrel of crude oil, leftover after the crude has been refined into gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, and the various other consumable fuel products we humans use to generate heat and power. It is thick, tarry, sulfur-rich treacle. Black shit that has absolutely no use other than fuelling and driving floating steel colossus that ply the earth’s oceans hauling mass-produced crap from China and other third world countries to mass consumers of the same crap in the western world.
