Rose George is the author of The Big Necessity and A Life Removed. As a journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Slate, the Guardian, and Scientific American. She lives in Yorkshire, England.
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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 all those dots, the wor... SEE MORE