- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/20648679
Were electric ferries not a viable option?
cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/20648679
Were electric ferries not a viable option?
The whole article is wild, but in a bad way: They are comparing a bigger ferry with a smaller one? They are claiming that LNG from fucking Qatar is “green”? They are calculating upstream emissions from LNG into the footprint of one ferry, but don’t include the upstream emissions of the diesel fuel?
The person who posted this to [email protected] is someone who’s spent some small amount of time defending articles which are clearly propaganda designed to make people mistrustful of anything “green.”
I think there’s a pretty good chance that the whole reason for the article’s framing, which as you point out is pretty wild and nonsensical, is that it lets them make it sound like “green” is bad and fake, and that’s the goal of the article. I definitely think there’s a good chance that it getting posted on Lemmy is happening for that reason.
Fwiw, that’s not the reason I crossposted it. I don’t know the motivations of the original poster.
While granted, the headline is baity, the final section of the article seems fairly solution-oriented.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to attack your motivations specifically. The other poster was the one with a small history of suspicious postings.
It’s not just the headline that’s baity… the whole framing is a little weird. I don’t think anyone in the modern day thinks of LNG as a “green” fuel. It’s just a fossil fuel. I did look into the ship a little bit, and apparently this crap about LNG being a “low-emission” fuel as compared with diesel was supposed to be a big deal for constructing it, so maybe the article is pointing out a fair counterargument. It just raises my hackles a little bit whenever I see an article which if you glance at it quickly could leave you with an impression, “And that’s why green is fake!”
The BBC are putting “green” in scare quotes. I.e., this is what politicians/owners claimed about the ship.
Upstream emissions from LNG tend to be higher than either petrol, diesel or pipeline gas.
US LNG is likely more damaging to climate than even coal.