Minhaj uses comedy to count real cost of cruising
(CNS): As the Cayman government prepares to do a deal over its proposed cruise berthing project with a conglomerate involving two of the world’s biggest cruise lines, comedian and host of the Netflix show, Patriot Act, Hasan Minhaj, used gags to illustrate some of the ways the cruise industry exploits workers, skimps on safety, and even sweeps crime under the rug. The popular comic also noted in this weekend’s episode the negative environmental impact this sector is having around the world.
As the industry grows at an extraordinary rate and ships become evermore self-contained, the cruise lines use increasingly innovative ways of keeping passengers on board, spending their money with them and not in the ports of call.
Minhaj’s sometimes hilarious take also exposes the fine print and the fines cruise lines have paid for illegal dumping, but also points to the legal dumping ships do in ports.
See the full show below:
Old school.
It is non thermal energy of EMF that is damaging.
EMF’s span large frequencies. Except for visible light and infrared EMF, we can not perceive any of these energies (frequencies) without instruments designed to find them. But our brain senses them all.
The heating effect is called the Schwan guideline, and it only takes in to account the thermal effects of EMF. The Schwan guideline for EMF in the USA was set because it could measure and perceive heat from infrared EMF’s. But these EMF’s are not representative of what we face today.
List of 170 reviews on non thermal effects of EMF
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/153-reviews/
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Started watching this. Definitely as waste of time. Eventually just switched it off.
Sadly, he’s taken a very serious issue and trivialized it.
The guy is not funny, but he delivers the message. The link in 11:19 pm is more precise and hard to argue with.
Worth a read
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/leviathans-in-the-harbor/
Thanks! Good read.
“Around the world, cruise lines sell the beauty of their destinations and tout their environmental responsibility, and yet they pollute the places they visit by burning sulfur-laden heavy fuel oil—bunker fuel—the gunk left over after the distillation of other fuels. It is the dirtiest fuel available. A recent report by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for Stand.earth, a West Coast environmental NGO, found that air pollution levels on the decks of cruise ships are comparable to concentrations measured in polluted cities, including Beijing, China, and Santiago, Chile. Around the world, the sulfur from the exhaust of cargo and cruise ships combined is linked to an annual 400,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease and 14 million cases of childhood asthma. Although while in North American ports, regulations require cruise ships to switch to burning cleaner fuel, they continue to emit exhaust while powering the ship’s systems. The problem is compounded when multiple ships are in port on the same day.”
“[Alaska] is the only jurisdiction in the world where anybody is actually monitoring what cruise ships are discharging,”
Excellent article. Must read for everyone.
“Kiffer’s Ketchikan roots run deep. His great-grandfather on his mother’s side arrived in 1893 to mine for gold before the Klondike rush but never struck it rich. “My father’s side came in 1918,” Kiffer says. “My mother’s side called them blow-ins.””
They have blow-ins; we have driftwood. Just want to point out that we are not the first community to come up with a word for people who are late to the party.
Another (invisible) cruise ship hazard: Electromagnetic smog.
Considerable amount of electromagnetic radiations from already certified equipment occurs on cruise ships because of breakdown of shielding plus radiation from unintended sources which is of serious concern for crew as well as passengers.
An average cruise ship has 5,000-6,000 cell phones, cellular antennas, cell towers, wireless systems that crisscross, WI-FI hot-spots, broadcast towers, radars, electronic article surveillance, Radiofrequency Identification (RFID), metal detector systems, compact fluorescent bulbs&other fluorescent lighting, etc. etc. The list is endless!
Welcome to one of the most hazardous place to be on your vacation! Bring your children. Pregnant women are also welcome!
P.S. They say flying 3 times greener than cruising. Air quality on cruise ship deck ‘worse than world’s most polluted cities’.
Now imagine 4 of such monsters park in your back yard for entire day every day. Suddenly living in South Sound doesn’t look attractive anymore as it would be an equivalent of living in extremely hazardous zone. GT shops and restaurants employees would be also affected. At least right now there is some distance between ships and the shore.
Radio waves / cell phones /etc are NOT ionizing. At most it’ll heat your skin 0.01 degrees.
Gamma rays are ionizing.
What wavelengths do damage? Ionizing.
“This ‘power of the prevailing paradigm’ means that conventional paradigms are, as is nearly always the case in science, defended vociferously.
Max Planck, the Nobel physicist, noted darkly that old paradigms only really die out when their promoting professors also die: ‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it’.)”
There are several emerging competing paradigms for the non thermal biological behaviour of EMF. They are based essentially on Quantum Electro-dynamics and informational physics.
Non thermal effects and mechanisms of interaction between EMF and living matter: a selected Summary.
https://www.icems.eu/papers/SummaryGuilianifeb25th.pdf
So why are we getting into deals with these cruise lines when it is clear that they are only about the profit, even at the expense of their crew, passengers and the environment? It’s honestly not rocket science. At the end of the day if it suits them to run off to another destination they will. Wake up Cayman. Wake up.
Wow. Never going on a cruise!!
Ok very funny.
Let’s not do anything that could be interpreted as progress even if 50 million people want it.
Let’s all stay home , it’s so dangerous out there with people having fun , despite nasty employers , pollution, low wages and businesses making a profit .
You go and have fun.
I would call vacationing on a cruise ship a madness, not progress. But if there’s a demand, why not? Personally I get sea sick on all vessels and get sensory overload just shopping at a supermarket. That is why my dream vacation is on deserted beach on a deserted island that time forgot.
Off to Little then? Out of interest, does your dream vacation involve sleeping under the stars and scavenging for your own food and water, or does your definition of deserted exclude hotels and services?
It is crowds that I want to avoid. Light pollution and noise as well. Nobody scavengers for food these days. When you come to understand that you can charge few a premium instead of giving discounts to many, we might have a conversation. In other words there are plenty of people who would pay double what you charge now to have a peaceful vacation under the stars free of man made pollution of all sorts. This is called exclusivity.
if you want the cruise dock built, why not just move somewhere that has one?
And Guy Harvey has his artwork painted all over the sides of these monstrosities. Is it any wonder we haven’t heard a peep out of him over the destruction of the vibrant coral reef in GT?
There’s no money in being an environmental activist , unless your dad was Cousteau.
So true! I will never donate another penny to the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation. NEVER AGAIN!
I guess all that passion about blue marlins and saving our ocean is a pile of bs he spews while being mute on the real world topics at hand.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and disturbing.