Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073X5WNVN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 562 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Secrets of Ships" according to Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge. The title of Rose’s book clues us in to her first main point: ninety percent of the food we eat and the things that fill our homes, cupboards, offices, and yards comes to us by sea. Her second point is that, even as we depend more and more on ship. Fascinating but Sad My grandmother came from a seafaring family on the coast of Ireland, and as a little boy I heard countless tales of men at sea (women didn't go to sea except as passengers in her day). Seafaring life sounded dangerous yet fascinating. My relatives in Ir. Michael said Disappointing. More of a travel / social commentary book. Not a great deal on the inner workings of the shipping and intermodal industry as it relates to the complexity of moving from A to B. I was hoping for much more. I enjoyed the author's writing style and found t
Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with an antipiracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains and investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales. Infesting our waters, poisoning our air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is environmentally indefensible. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. Without all those dots, the world would not work. And then there are the pirates. Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization.. Freight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible. We buy, so we must ship. On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots