China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping? - eviltoast

China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping?::Since China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) unveiled its KUN-24AP containership at the Marintec China Expo in Shanghai in early December of 2023, the internet has been abuzz about it. Not jus…

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I completely agree. Our approach of simply reducing emissions from our current societal and economic structures will not scale sufficiently. The problem, as always, is capitalism. We build things further away because it’s cheaper. We run international shipping on ultra tight schedules and develop systems like just-in-time logistics chains because hyper-efficiency (at the cost of intense fragility) makes more money.

    These structures have to be broken, or at least heavily disincentivized, in order to make real headway in combating climate change.