Cruise ship passengers still enjoying sun, surf and sand beside Haiti
January 18th, 2010
Photo via Flickr: tesla314
Cruise ships are still plying the waters beside Haiti. You don’t want to let a little earthquake suffering ruin your trip, do you? Indulge at the buffet, splash in the surf and happily ignore the tens of thousands without food, water, medical care or shelter. Sure the cruise lines could cancel a few cruises and help with humanitarian relief efforts, but what’s a cruise line company going to do with a bunch of great PR and a clear conscience? Naturally, they need to focus on the core business of pummeling local cultures into oblivion (via tourist invasion), overfeeding sunburned passengers and secretly dumping as much waste into the ocean as they can get away with.
Read the whole story on the Guardian here.
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It seems to me that there are two choices:
1) The ships continue to call. They bring aid and resources which can be transported to the disaster zone, revenue to the local Haitians who work at Labadee, revenue (via taxes, fees etc) to Haiti’s government, and passengers who will make extra contributions (by both spending=revenue and donations).
2) The ships stop calling. The aid goes undelivered, the local Haitians are out of work, there’s no tax revenue, and no passengers to spend or donate. The passengers will still have their holiday but on another beach.
“Out of sight, out of mind” won’t help anyone.
I agree, carry on with the cruises!!