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s0rce on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the c...

Larger ships do not pollute more. Per unit of cargo they pollute less.

stackcollision on May 7, 2015 [–]

Thank you for mentioning this. Things have to get to their destination somehow, and if you replaced these ships with their equivalent carrying capacity of another form of transport you would probably get even more pollution.

sp332 on May 7, 2015 | [–]

They could use scrubbers or switch to a different fuel when they're near a heavily populated area.

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