Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of "flags of convenience." Infesting our waters, poisoning our air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is environmentally indefensible. Without all those dots, the world would not work.įreight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible.
Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. Each dot is a ship each ship is laden with boxes each box is laden with goods. On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
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