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 | : | 4.61 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073X5WNVN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 379 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge said Secrets of Ships. 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 ships to bring us all that stuff, the industry has become more and more invisible. Ports have moved to deeper, more secure harbors away from cities; the goods transported by ships are hidden away in generic containers; and man. "Fascinating but Sad" according to Amazon Customer. 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 Ireland continued going to sea, but I realize that fewer did so in each succeeding generation, and this book explains why. Most ships fly "flags of convenience" from countries that have little to do with the ship or crew its. Disappointing Michael 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 the information on pirates and whales interesting but not what I was hoping to learn.
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. And then there are the pirates. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. 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. 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.. Away from public scr