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Chapter 19
A Village in Prince Christian Sound
19.1 Lunatic Bifurcations
A cruise ship consumes roughly 1,000 gallons of fuel per 1,000 tons of weight in the
water. Two hundred and fifty tons per day, per average sea-faring vessel. One ship
in particular, upon which we find ourselves charging toward Greenland weighs over
86,000 tons. No other seemingly living breathing monster other than a massive
storm weighs 176 million+ pounds. Public notices for cruise ship pollution violations include problems with fecal coliform, chlorine, air quality, oily waste, sulfur
content in fuel, overboard garbage, and other wastewater breaches
1
. In addition,
there is the significant matter of ballast water management into, and of such ships,
both in terms of water quality but also invasive species management
2
.
Traveling up the 60-kmr long Prince Christian Sound on such a behemoth
requires a profoundly dismal sense of irony and self-loathing, not unlike that tidal
wave of a critique that slammed into an Autumn, 2016 art exhibition at Yale
University entitled, “Yosemite: Exploring the Incomparable Valley”
3
. “A Photo
Show Romanticizes Yosemite at the Expense of Native Americans,” writes Ari
Akkermans, “a freelance writer and art critic based in Beirut…”
4
. “It’s through
exhibitions like this that you can see the profound disconnect between institutions
1 See “Pollution and Environmental Violations and Fines, 1992 – 2018,” Source: Cruise Junkie dot
Com, http://www.cruisejunkie.com/envirofines.html, Accessed April 5, 2019.
2 See “Cruise Lines Readying for Ballast Water Treatment,” by Wendy Laursen, 7/28/2016, The
Maritime Executive, https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/cruise-lines-readying-for-ballastwater-treatment; See also, “Ballast Water Management, August 9, 2017, Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center, https://nbic.si.edu/glossary/ballast-water-management/, Accessed April 5, 2019.
3 https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/yosemite-exploring-incomparable-valley,
Accessed April 5, 2019.
4 January 2, 2017, Hyperallergic, https://hyperallergic.com/348476/a-photo-show-romanticizesyosemite-at-the-expense-of-native-americans/ Accessed April 5, 2019; See https://hyperallergic.
com/author/ari-akkermans/. Accessed April 5, 2019.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. C. Tobias, J. G. Morrison, On the Nature of Ecological Paradox,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64526-7_19
Chapter 19
A Village in Prince Christian Sound
19.1 Lunatic Bifurcations
A cruise ship consumes roughly 1,000 gallons of fuel per 1,000 tons of weight in the
water. Two hundred and fifty tons per day, per average sea-faring vessel. One ship
in particular, upon which we find ourselves charging toward Greenland weighs over
86,000 tons. No other seemingly living breathing monster other than a massive
storm weighs 176 million+ pounds. Public notices for cruise ship pollution violations include problems with fecal coliform, chlorine, air quality, oily waste, sulfur
content in fuel, overboard garbage, and other wastewater breaches
1
. In addition,
there is the significant matter of ballast water management into, and of such ships,
both in terms of water quality but also invasive species management
2
.
Traveling up the 60-kmr long Prince Christian Sound on such a behemoth
requires a profoundly dismal sense of irony and self-loathing, not unlike that tidal
wave of a critique that slammed into an Autumn, 2016 art exhibition at Yale
University entitled, “Yosemite: Exploring the Incomparable Valley”
3
. “A Photo
Show Romanticizes Yosemite at the Expense of Native Americans,” writes Ari
Akkermans, “a freelance writer and art critic based in Beirut…”
4
. “It’s through
exhibitions like this that you can see the profound disconnect between institutions
1 See “Pollution and Environmental Violations and Fines, 1992 – 2018,” Source: Cruise Junkie dot
Com, http://www.cruisejunkie.com/envirofines.html, Accessed April 5, 2019.
2 See “Cruise Lines Readying for Ballast Water Treatment,” by Wendy Laursen, 7/28/2016, The
Maritime Executive, https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/cruise-lines-readying-for-ballastwater-treatment; See also, “Ballast Water Management, August 9, 2017, Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center, https://nbic.si.edu/glossary/ballast-water-management/, Accessed April 5, 2019.
3 https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/yosemite-exploring-incomparable-valley,
Accessed April 5, 2019.
4 January 2, 2017, Hyperallergic, https://hyperallergic.com/348476/a-photo-show-romanticizesyosemite-at-the-expense-of-native-americans/ Accessed April 5, 2019; See https://hyperallergic.
com/author/ari-akkermans/. Accessed April 5, 2019.