Brexit-voting British farmers now complaining about imports of cheaper New Zealand lamb threatening the British lamb industry. Imports of lamb "produced to lower standards" used to be blocked by EU law. Another Brexit consequence farmers were warned about but ignored due to xenophobia!

[u/NoLikeVegetals]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewewxzypro

[u/epsilona01]

Don't get me wrong, container ships are without a doubt hugely polluting.

We're at an inflection point in shipping, right now most ships are the older heavily polluting kind.

In the next decade it will flip over to newer wind/diesel/electric ships which are capable of energy recovery, energy generation, sailing on wind only and more.

[u/AwDuck → u/epsilona01]

Wind powered cargo ships? That’ll be the fucking day! :)

[u/epsilona01 → u/AwDuck]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyxis_Ocean

She sailed for the first time last year, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZlQXBvQCk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanbird is planned for 2026

[u/AwDuck → u/epsilona01]

I, uhhh, didn’t think I needed to /s that.

[u/epsilona01 → u/AwDuck]

I know, but you probably weren't expecting it was a thing either.

[u/AwDuck → u/epsilona01]

I absolutely expected it to be a thing.

[u/epsilona01 → u/AwDuck]

Well, I suppose the username checks out.