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I remember reading a fun fact: A single day (it might have even been an hour but let's err on the side of caution) of the bigger cruise ship engine use pumps out the same amount of pollution as all of the cars in Europe do combined for a while year.
Why on fuck do we bother with the small stuff when the big ones have such a huge weight on the problem.
One cruise ship has carbon emissions roughly equivalent to 12,000 cars. Maybe if you're specifically looking at sulphur oxide pollution, since modern cars emit so little of it. But there's a lot of other stuff coming out of tailpipes, sulphur oxide is just a single pollutant.