Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry
Rose George: Melihat rahasia industri perkapalan
Rose George looks deeply into topics that are unseen but fundamental, whether that's sewers or latrines or massive container ships or pirate hostages or menstrual hygiene. Full bio
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in any other industry?
we still depend on shipping.
sejak 1970.
trade is carried by sea,
when I got on board Kendal
they put me underneath her portrait --
and into the Indian Ocean,
544 seafarers being held hostage,
and the flag of convenience.
of unscrupulous ship owners,
and they want cheap fuel,
by someone in the tanker industry
about three to four percent,
yang begitu lama?
of the most surprising things
habitats of ocean creatures.
the surface of the water,
propellers make underwater
North Atlantic right whale
acoustic pollution yet.
didn't want to get off my ship.
for another five weeks,
pikiran saya terbelah,
who know so little about it,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rose George - Curious journalistRose George looks deeply into topics that are unseen but fundamental, whether that's sewers or latrines or massive container ships or pirate hostages or menstrual hygiene.
Why you should listen
Rose George thinks, researches, writes and talks about the hidden, the undiscussed. Among the everyone-does-it-no-one-talks-about-it issues she's explored in books and articles: sanitation (and poop in general). Diarrhea is a weapon of mass destruction, says the UK-based journalist and author, and a lack of access to toilets is at the root of our biggest public health crisis. In 2012, two out of five of the world’s population had nowhere sanitary to go.
The key to turning around this problem, says George: Let’s drop the pretense of “water-related diseases” and call out the cause of myriad afflictions around the world as what they are -- “poop-related diseases” that are preventable with a basic toilet. George explores the problem in her book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters and in a fabulous special issue of Colors magazine called "Shit: A Survival Guide." Read a sample chapter of The Big Necessity >>
Her latest book, on an equally hidden world that touches almost everything we do, is Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, Food on Your Plate. Read a review >>
In the UK and elsewhere, you'll find the book titled Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry the Brings You 90% of Everything.
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