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Hardcover Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate Book

ISBN: 0805092633

ISBN13: 9780805092639

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not...

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A Bit Misleading

The writing is fine. You can understand 95% of what she's trying to convey. Every once in a while you feel her moral superiority which grates a little but is easy to ignore. But what bothers me the most is that the title led me to believe she would be talking about the entire shipping process. But instead she just talks about what it's like to be on a ship transporting random goods. It's fairly interesting and I've learned a bit but it's not what I was hoping for.
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