Mexican town of Mahahual sees little economic benefits — but massive environmental cost — from cruise ships (english.elpais.com)
from Valuy@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 23 Jun 10:25
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Zephyr@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jun 10:49 next collapse

So the tourists get off and then don’t buy anything? Seems there’s more than enough money to go around but the E-corp is paying off local politicians to keep all the money in their hands.

Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus on 23 Jun 10:58 collapse

These things symbolize everything wrong with capitalism. Privatize profit, externalize costs - economic and environmental, and the costs they can’t dodge are kept as low as possible by burning the dirtiest fuel possible and dumping their waste at sea; mainly used by baby boomers and the people which have the same mentality.