"The more ships have grown in size and……" — Rose George
"The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk."
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45 Quotes by Rose George
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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…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
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Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
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Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know…
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