Re: “Cruise season in Seattle begins with a rally towards air pollution” [April 7, Local News]:
Cruise management? Sure, please!
Do the 1.7 million cruise passengers scheduled to depart from Seattle this summer season understand that their cruise has a serious influence on the atmosphere similar to all different types of transportation?
Because the 276 ships take folks to new climates and places, they threaten the very environments they’re touring to go to and expertise. The short-term enjoyment of those locations shouldn’t come at the price of future talents to take action. We must always proceed to deliver consciousness (just like the Seattle Cruise Management activists cited within the article) and push the Port of Seattle to increase shore energy past simply Pier 66 and velocity up the timeline for lowering seaport-related emissions.
We will proceed to reap the financial advantages of the cruise business in Seattle whereas nonetheless pushing for extra inexperienced decisions and a discount of its influence. It additionally supplies us the reminder this Earth Month to think about how all journey (together with by ship) permits us to interact with our environments in a different way and have an effect on the local weather.
Bridget Ury, Newcastle
