You may not share my opinion, but I think #cruise #ships are a nightmare. They are a disaster for the #sea and for our environment, yet people who continue to go on cruises just don't seem to give a damn. The Meyer shipyard (#MeyerWerft) in Papenburg is where some of these cruise ships are built. On my bike ride to #Papenburg, I had the opportunity to ‘admire’ the Disney Destiny. To enable this and other ships to reach the #NorthSea, the depth of the River #Ems was altered. Whereas the Ems used to be 1.5 metres deep, it is now 9 metres deep (!). These interventions in nature, just so that some people can have ‘fun’, disgust me and all of us will have to pay for them eventually. So this is my (neither pretty nor light) contribution to today's #MeerMittwoch.

@Bella@pixelfed.social > You may not share my opinion, but I think #cruise #ships are a nightmare. Here I thought at first you were referring to the experience of being on one. I once was on one as part of a work trip. I still don't understand the appeal of it or why anyone would want to book that, environmental aspects entirely aside. (But not on the Ems, and IIRC no nature changes have been made to enable the cruise route itself, although I still see it as a massive waste of fossil fuels) EDIT: Now that I looked it up, that wasn't even a real cruise, just a few hours. But bad and pointless enough as is.