Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.
We live in a society where everything's packaged.
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
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