Sunk Cost fallacy from Lefty Friends
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Just pointing out that the mass production of those stupid little bullcraps you can find at every check out counter in walmarts, targets, walgreens, you know the plastic and rubber shit you see for a buck or two. All made in taiwan, china, vietnam by the millions, all loaded into shipping containers and thrown by the hundreds onto massive cargo freighters that burn a miliion tons of fuel to get it to a port just to be driver around the country.
That alone produced more co2 pollution than every car on the planet combined for a year.
These super freighters are the biggest producers of pollution for vehicles and if they believed in global warming they would support more isolationist policies and demand that all of these inconsequential little knick knacks be made in their country just to cut down on the polution.
IIRC, the real problem with huge tanker ships is the sulfur-based pollution they emit.
This.
Big ships run high sulfur "bunker diesel" as it is the cheapest fuel possible. The ships spend most of their time in international waters, where there is no emissions regulation.
Diesel Trucks have catalytic converters and newer trucks treat their exhaust with Add Blue to catalase the nitrate emissions. There are efforts to regulate emissions of micro-fine soot particles; which contain the odd radioactive Carbon 14 particle.
CO2 emissions can be offset by forestry efforts. Sulfates and Nitrates cause acid rain. Micro-fine soot is radioactive and causes cancer, especially in big cities where the density is high.
I am not a fan of DPF filters, it is a stupid way to regulate exhaust emissions and is a ploy to force obsolescence of older trucks. Still, emissions testing and regular rebuilds are desirable. You can rebuild old trucks forever with the correct motivation.
Well, yes and no. Multiplication is a bitch.
In terms of emissions per tonnage mile ships are actually pretty efficient and OTR trucks are godawful terrible. But if we wanted to really kill emissions we'd get rid of air travel.
Instead, the global elites (who are telling how how dire the situation is and insisting we need to live in mud huts and eat ze' bugs) are cutting down many square miles of the Amazon rain forest to build a new road so thousands of people can fly halfway around the world in private jets to meet to tell us we need to change our entire way of living in order to save the planet.
I have nothing but scorn for people who can't see right through this shit.