I honestly don't understand why the cruise industry hasn't been destroyed. COVID should have ended them. Instead people have spent $100K on tickets for a worldwide cruise (and it sold out in minutes). Florida is not allowing any industry, not even the cruise industry, to check to see if people are vaccinated so we're just going to have another round of floating COVID boats that aren't allowed to dock anywhere.

[Sigh] We had a solution for that once.

Swallowed my URL. www youtube com/watch?v=pFXlJ0RCKpU

Couldn't be happier with the efforts of Seattle Cruise Control. Regulars to Slog know of my fury at the cruise industry and what it is doing to our oceans. Education is always a good thing, but I don't know how much it will quell the desire to take the love boat. The industry hires thousands of people, and you have to deal with that, too - no politician is going to shut it down. Also, there seems to be so many contrarians about who will want to take a cruise just because the industry is so polluting and hated. Look at all the people who want Hummers. I don't know many cruisers, Some will be persuaded, The ones I do know don't seem to care much about what those ships are doing to the planet or to localities. But good luck and well wishes with your agenda.

Thanks Matt Baume and the Stranger for covering this. Difficult to fit everything into editorial limitations. One point that could have used more coverage is the employment/labor issue which Bauhaus I raises. Yes, the industry employs a lot of people, but most of those are below deck workers from the Philippines or other countries, earning less than $2/hour and with lax labor laws due to the foreign flags of convenience that the cruise ships operate under. Link to yesterday's press conference: https://seattlecruisecontrol.org/seattle-cruise-control-press-conference-july-19-2021/.