Another bullshit ecological stat:
"15 cargo ships produce more emissions than all the cars in the world"

This is one of those 'technically true in the worst ways' factoids. the emissions being talked about here isn't CO2 but rather sulfur oxide. Cars run on refined gasoline which doesn't produce sulfur oxide when combusted, while ships run on unrefined heavy oil, which produces a lot of sulfur oxide. However, getting rid of those 15 ships would have a negligible impact on the amount of sulfur oxide actually added to the atmosphere because most of it is coming from other sources. Also, cargo ships are still by far have the lowest emissions per pound moved per distance of any type of transportation, so we'd be worse off if we replaced them with trucks or smaller electric ships.

People need to stop believing shit that makes it sound like there's an easy answer to pollution and climate change and that if we just did [x] everything would be fine again. https://shitposter.club/attachment/2711954