2023-07-15 13:15:35
François Gemenne, political scientist at ULiège, professor at Sciences Po Paris and member of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate, and co-author of their latest report believes that “these huge ocean liners are truly one of the biggest sources of pollution today“Also according to him, these cruise ships pollute more than an airplane, even when they use LNG (liquefied natural gas), a fuel that also produces CO2.
For Stéphane Coppey, engineer, specialist in mobility and transport issues and administrator of France Nature Environnement in the Bouches du Rhône, this type of mega liner is an environmental aberration. Realizing that you have to live with a certain type of development, but he says, “the growth of the cruise sector ends up compensating for all the efforts that can be made in terms of reducing pollution at the scale of a city. We say to ourselves that it is not very reasonable“.
His speech today is as follows:Limit, moderate, regulate […] and let’s start telling shipowners: it’s too late to build this type of ship. It is no longer time to generate pollution for an activity which, after all, is not essential to the functioning of life, commerce, etc. Let’s reduce pollution and not amplify it“.
Another problem generated by this type of transport is the large number of passengers it carries. “When you have up to 7 ships in the same city (Stéphane Coppey lives in Marseille) which sees passengers disembark for a day. That means the city is completely overrun. It’s not tourism at all that a city like Marseille, for example, wants to develop.”
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