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Maroc Maroc - ARMCHAIRMAYOR.CA - A La Une - 11/07/2024 11:03

CHARBONNEAU – The dirty secret of my Alaska cruise

I HAD SOME reservations before joining our Alaska cruise last year. Some of my concerns were ethical, some technical. How could I justify boarding a luxury ship when so many live in poverty and don’t even have a roof over their heads? It seemed like an exercise in excess, one that I would condemn in the ultra-wealthy who regard the planet as their personal playground. I justified my ethical concerns by saying that it was an expedition to a unique glacier in Alaska. The Hubbard Glacier is North America’s largest tidewater glacier. It’s 122 km long, stretching all the way into the Yukon. Our trip to the Hubbard Glacier didn’t disappoint. As our ship approached it through the mist of Disappointment Bay, it appeared as wall of ice, 11 km wide and 100 metres high. The technical concerns had to do with the disposal of wastewater: greywater (showers, sinks, laundry, and galleys) and sewage (I don’t think this requires further explanation). Anyone who has gone camping is aware of the problem of what to do with wastewater. You can’t just dump it anywhere. Well it turns out that at sea, ships can just dump greywater anywhere despite the fact that [...]

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