A STARVING polar bear searches her ice shelf for dwindling food, ice CRACKING menacingly below her giant paws. Suddenly, it COLLAPSES and PLUNGES the polar bear into the icy water below.
This heartbreaking scene is the future we’re moving towards. As only 900 Southern Beaufort polar bears remain, the Arctic is warming TWICE as fast as the rest of the world.
While this fragile ecosystem melts away, cruise corporations charge further and further north through Arctic habitats. Their titanic vessels SPIT ice-melting emissions, DUMP wastewater into the ocean, and SPEW toxic pollution that exacerbates the problem and further dooms the Arctic to destruction.
The people that live here, including Indigenous communities, also suffer from corporate cruise’s greed. The noise from their massive ships can drive away fish and other ocean resources that these communities rely on. The pollution can have severe ramifications for people’s health. THIS HAS TO CHANGE!
Until the EPA reins in corporate cruise’s reckless behavior, cruise ships in the Arctic are a CATASTROPHE WAITING TO HAPPEN! Please, Friend, we need your immediate help to PROTECT the Arctic, its communities, and wildlife from the greed of the corporate cruise industry. Sign by 11:59pm TONIGHT!
Have you heard about Big Cruise’s worst offender, Carnival Corp.? It dragged 11,000 tons of TOXIC HEAVY FUEL through ESSENTIAL ARCTIC HABITATS in just one year! If that doesn’t demonstrate how little respect these companies have for the environments that are making them rich, I don’t know what does.
The Arctic is melting fast, Friend. We’re running out of time, and cruise corporations needed to be held accountable yesterday. That’s why I’m reaching out to you now. I know you don’t want to see communities polluted, the Arctic melted, and wildlife starved to death. So, please, be one of the 27 more people we need from your city to sign before 11:59pm TONIGHT! Stop corporate cruise ships from DESTROYING the Arctic!
Standing with you,
Marcie Keever
Oceans and vessels program director,
Friends of the Earth
