--- title: "10 Than Quotes By Rose George" description: "10 Than quotes by Rose George. Plus more from Rose George and more Than sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/rose-george-8313_about_you-ve-probably-been-asked-to-care-about_2844273.png" --- > [You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/you-ve-probably-been-asked-to-care-about-things-like-hiv-aids-or-t-b/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/rose-george-8313_about_you-ve-probably-been-asked-to-care-about_2844273.png) > [Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/sending-a-container-from-shanghai-to-le-havre-emits-fewer-greenhouse/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c97/rose-george-8313_climate_sending-a-container-from-shanghai-to-le_287116.png) > [Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/diarrhea-90-percent-of-which-is-caused-by-food-and-water-contaminated/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58f/rose-george-8313_aids_diarrhea-90-percent-of-which-is-caused-b_995971.png) > [There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/there-are-more-than-one-hundred-thousand-ships-at-sea-carrying-all/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/rose-george-8313_carrying_there-are-more-than-one-hundred-thousand_1326003.png) > [Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/perhaps-we-believe-that-everything-travels-by-air-or-magically-and/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce4/rose-george-8313_actually_perhaps-we-believe-that-everything-trave_2431414.png) > [Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/shipping-is-so-cheap-that-it-makes-more-financial-sense-for-scottish/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/rose-george-8313_back_shipping-is-so-cheap-that-it-makes-more_1940327.jpg) > [When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/when-peru-had-a-cholera-outbreak-in-1991-losses-from-tourism-and/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/rose-george-8313_agricultural_when-peru-had-a-cholera-outbreak-in-1991_1465042.png) > [Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/some-countries-have-more-water-than-others-some-can-afford-to-use/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/rose-george-8313_afford_some-countries-have-more-water-than-othe_2774077.png) > [Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/most-modern-indians-don-t-stick-to-their-caste-jobs-any-more-there-is/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/932/rose-george-8313_animals_most-modern-indians-don-t-stick-to-their_1456284.jpg) > [I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/i-find-maersk-fascinating-it-is-the-coca-cola-of-freight-with-none-of/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/rose-george-8313_business_i-find-maersk-fascinating-it-is-the-coca_2297256.png) ## Other authors on Than ## More by Rose George > [I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/i-went-down-to-the-sewers-in-london-and-looked-at-a-campaigning-group/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/the-environmental-control-and-life-support-system-eclss-which/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/diarrhoea-is-the-reason-you-can-have-a-malnourished-child-in-a-well/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [“Mr. Wang had found my interest in fen, the Mandarin word for excrement, peculiar. Nonetheless, he tried to be helpful. He would point out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/mr-wang-had-found-my-interest-in-fen-the-mandarin-word-for-excrement/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/sending-a-container-from-shanghai-to-le-havre-emits-fewer-greenhouse/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/seafaring-can-be-lucrative-the-elite-such-as-gas-tanker-captains-can/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/before-containers-transport-costs-ate-up-25-percent-of-the-value-of/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/a-humpback-can-transmit-a-sound-across-a-whole-ocean-but-a/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/the-days-of-languorous-shore-leave-are-long-gone-overnight-stays-are/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/rules-governing-defecation-hygiene-and-pollution-exist-in-every/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/light-doesn-t-penetrate-beneath-the-surface-of-the-water-so-ocean/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/my-mother-watched-her-loving-husband-look-at-her-with-blankness-or/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/i-find-suez-astonishing-for-the-first-hour-it-is-a-ditch-in-a-desert/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/there-are-few-industries-as-defiantly-opaque-as-shipping-even/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) > [ I'd grown up thinking that a \[sanitary toilet\] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-george/i-d-grown-up-thinking-that-a-sanitary-toilet-was-my-right-when-in/) [Rose George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-george/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/than/rose-george/#itemlist", "name": "10 Than Quotes By Rose George", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. 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