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This is a book about the shipping industry. That may not inspire you, but as a sometime-sailor, and person concerned about both human impact on our planet and the potential for the future, I read this book and was extremely pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n
Ostensibly,\u00a0Ninety Percent of Everything<\/em> is ‘just’ the story of one journalists travel aboard a large container ship. But, because of the reality that 90% of ‘stuff’ in our world is shipped by ships, it is actually a book that touches our lives in more ways than we think. George deftly ties together the individual stories of the crew of the ship she meets – and some interesting characters along the way – with the bigger issues surrounding the shipping industry. Without being exhaustive, this includes piracy, pollution, consumerism, economics, ethics, and politics. This is a book that covers a huge percentage of human activity – simply because of it’s ostensibly ‘boring’ subject matter.<\/p>\n George is an excellent writer – she draws you in to the story, and leaves you thinking about the reality she is describing – and the hidden reality of the life of seafarers and the mysterious ownership patterns and legal minefields of our culture’s foundational reality.<\/p>\n I’d strongly recommend reading\u00a0Ninety Percent of Everything<\/em> to get a handle on how the global economy actually works, whilst simultaneously understanding a little bit more about the people on whose lives our lives and general state of living quite literally depend. One of the sub-plots is the sobering autumn of one captain’s career – his story made me quite emotional. I read it on a boat as we sailed\/motored around the East Coast of England on a beautiful bank holiday weekend – but this book is an important one whatever your connection with the sea, or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a book about the shipping industry. That may not inspire you, but as a sometime-sailor, and person concerned about both human impact on our planet and the potential for the future, I read this book and was extremely … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2],"tags":[945,946,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}