Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be… — Rose George Back Copy Share Image
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship. — Rose George Bananas Copy Share Image
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money… — Rose George Agricultural Copy Share Image
Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never… — Rose George Bananas Copy Share Image
Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some… — Rose George Afford Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff. — Rose George Amount Copy Share Image
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation… — Rose George Earn Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation… — Rose George Acceptable Copy Share Image
“When MSC Napoli grounded off a Devon beach in January 2007, its burst boxes of motorbikes, shampoo, and diapers attracted looters and… — Rose George Containers Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Above Copy Share Image
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death:… — Rose George Also Copy Share Image
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and… — Rose George Alarming Copy Share Image
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port,… — Rose George Also Copy Share Image
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more… — Rose George Aids Copy Share Image
In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward. — Rose George Agricultural Copy Share Image
A toilet can put a girl back in school. Twenty-five percent of girls in India drop out of school because they have… — Rose George Hygiene Copy Share Image
“The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to clean water and sanitation dwarf the casualities associated with violent conflict. No act… — rose george Children Copy Share Image
We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is… — Rose George Business Copy Share Image
“Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent ten thousand miles to China to… — Rose George Shipping Copy Share Image
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of… — Rose George Astonishing Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality… — Rose George Across Copy Share Image
I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,… — Rose George Against Copy Share Image
Rotavirus does not cause all diarrhea, but it causes a lot of it. Instead of a single vaccine dose, however, harried nurses… — Rose George Anything Copy Share Image
Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the… — Rose George Actually Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at… — Rose George Across Copy Share Image
Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are… — Rose George Air Copy Share Image
I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the… — Rose George Am Copy Share Image
“Only forest fires produce more black carbon than bunker fuel. Bunker fuel can have a sulfur content of up to 45,000 parts… — Rose George Climate Copy Share Image
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as… — Rose George Brain Copy Share Image
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,… — Rose George Acoustic Copy Share Image
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that… — Rose George After Copy Share Image
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish… — Rose George Across Copy Share Image
What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door.… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown… — Rose George Avoid Copy Share Image
As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps,… — Rose George Although Copy Share Image
There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She… — Rose George Across Copy Share Image
