Rose George Quotes

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• 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 adequate…
• The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
• In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.
• The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at who was doing…
• I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went…
• A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the…
• Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent…
• Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence,…
• There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
• Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
• There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience,…
• The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
• Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years…
• In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.
• Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement.…
• Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of…
• Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the…
• I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in…
• Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit…
• I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes,…

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