Roof top lounge, full band jazz, Turkish apple tea, blazing sun on our umbrella above, birds soaring, flowing ink from my pen giving lasting life to passing moments, a news song comes through the speakers and before i realize the jazz has ended shelby names the new song "Everybody hurts..." (Phil Collins?).
From our seat we see the water of Istanbul, just around the corner to the west lies the Bosforus, a ship passes in front of us carrying enough product to represent the total amount of resources i will use in my lifetime, and i don't mean finished product, i mean raw resources, for every pound of coal i use there is atleast several meters of "over burden" that will be scooped from the ground to uncover the storage of ancient sunlight, turned to sucrose, then body, the decomposed to what we call coal.
This cargo ship is why the greenwashing term "product miles" is complete bullshit (product miles is the concept that just because a product travels many miles from source to use it will have more of an overall environmental impact then a product that came from a closer source), in such volume each product takes cents to travel that dreaed average of 1,500 miles.
Many more ships revealing the great feats of humankind cut through the bath of bonded hydrogen and oxygen laying before me, but none were as big as teh first one i saw stacked high with multiple cargo containers, one on top of another, leaving me amazed at yet another act of engineering i call "modern magic."
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