Pollution: One container ship = 50 million cars!

According to a new article on shipping pollution, "based on engine size and the quality of fuel typically used by ships and cars shows that just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars."

While I am no environmentalist, I feel I try to do my part. I walk/bus to work, only drive when necessary. I go to the grocery store armed with reusable bags and my recycle bin fills faster than my garbage bin. I think that if enough people are like me, we might be able to save the world from global warming, becoming a giant land fill, or from contaminated water.

Then I read an news article like this one, and it makes me feel like the little bit I am doing will not really help in the true scheme of things when we have 90,000 container ships in use!! Not to mention the amount of money it is costing us in health care from all the pollution!