Thanks. This explain why cruise ships are much more wasteful than ferries:

perhaps the biggest difference is the payload. […] The reason, of course, is that a cruise ship is a floating village, with shops, restaurants, swimming pools and the like

This is why it’s important to compare transportation mode all things being equal. Keep in mind there’s lot of people flying coach, very few planes with individual cabins and restaurants. Cruise ships are designed for entertainment and luxury. Ferries are designed for transportation.

I’d be interested into some data on this topic.

My undersranding is plane is one of the most polluting mode of transportation, all things being equal. It probably vary a lot depending on the specific ship/plane, route, …

Data from the UK’s Department for Energy Securityand Net Zero (2022) shows the carbon footprint is 8x higher for short/long-haul fight than for ferry. (CO2eq per passenger-km). Carbon footprint is strongly coupled with fuel consumption. It’s not quite the same, but I’d expect the ratio to be roughly the same.

Right, I know nothing except it seems to involve jet fuel. This is a general comment on vacations by plane, don’t take it personally.

If oil shortage is severe enough and long lasting, we might see passenger ships coming back for transatlantic travel. How badly do you need to cross the atlantic?

Vacations doesn’t require jet fuel.

Relatively few people in the world visit the other side of the world by plane. For our sake it should remain a rare occurrence. For most vacations, there’s plenty of places that one can reach by train and bus.

If your area has shitty train infrastructure or too few bus lanes, I’m sorry, you may want to have a close look at where your taxes are going.

Praise be EU solidarity

Averages are affected a lot by outliers with very large values, and the effect is larger when there’s large inequalities. If measuring by income or wealth (higher is better) in a stadium with 1 billionaire and 999 homeless people, the average people is millionnaire.

This study still uses averages and flips the effect with a povery score (higher is worse). It gives more weight to the other end of a spectrum, very poor persons that need 300min to win 1$ makes the average much higher.

Using median values, or better 20-80 centiles values would be more meaningful.

Fair point. Fossil fuel cannot be replaced overnight. Such a sudden disruption is doing to cause harm.

The need to decrease fossil fuel has been clear for 30+ years. It wasn’t seriously acted on, and we missed the opportunity to decrease their use in an orderly and painless way. Now we’re facing chaotic and painful changes.

I hope we’re not loosing sight of the goals, and don’t bring back coal to compensate.

Board of (oligarchs and dictators sucking to Trump who think this would help him gets the) Peace (prize)

We will take other steps to stabilise energy markets, including working with certain producing nations to increase output.

Why so much focus on fossil fuels?

Accelerating the transition from fossiel fuels to renewables and building more energy storage would also help stabilise energy markets.

There’s also a need to assist cargo crew stuck at sea, and to allow safe passage of cargo transporting food.

Those don’t get a mention.

Journalists trying to make ends meet

If they doesn’t want Poland to have its own nuclear weapons, Russian and the USA should put more effort into progressive nuclear disarmement as agreed by treaty:

the NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Russia stopped participating in START, that agreement officially expired last month, and there has been no new agreement between Russia and the USA tio reduce stockpiles. Trump is chaotic, threatens to invade allies, so there’s reason to doubt it would defend NATO allies.

So it’d be logical for Poland to look into building its own nuclear deterrence. The solution is to better enforce the NTP, decrease everyone’s stockpile, including Russian and USA’s.