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Beyond the Oil Age: The real cost of cobalt mining in
Beyond the Oil Age: The real cost of cobalt mining in DRC | Dying Earth E4 | Featured Documentary
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The dark side of ‘green energy’: The real cost of cobalt mining in the DRC and how it impacts the nation’s environment.
From smartphones to aircraft engines to the batteries of electric cars, cobalt is a critical component of modern life since the metal protects batteries from overheating…
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Isn't it mind boggling that mining trumps food production? Don't they have some of the worlds most fertile land available to them? Why are the people starving? Time to set some new priorities!
But the documentary singles out China as the one buying most of the minerals but puts all the blame on the US & Europe.
This is both an external and internal issues but utimately, congolose people will have to find a way to fight this crisis by themselves in order to come out in full control of these resources. With great power, comes great responsability. It is normal for a place like congo to be ravaged by these kind of issues when the whole world wants a piece of you and wants to weaken you in order to get a better deal. But "come what may be, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance" -Virgil.
The exact link between global industry and local mining terror would be interesting too. THX
Congo 😢
Thanks so much for posting
There is a better way. Get the metal from the ocean floor. Polymetalic nodules. The Metals Company is going to start collecting them in a year.
Get these poor people out of the mines, please.
If they sent out UN in their region they will be benefiting in their work
I want to know more about the "medicine" they're putting in the lake….
Such BS! The majority of BEV today don’t use Cobalt! Lithium Iron Phosphate! The poor can keep the Cobalt we won’t need it.
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.
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A bit rich that Al Jazeera – sponsored by Qatar – is doing a series on climate change
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I preferred Al jazeera in documentary than their news item which they are bias.
I've always considered the environmentalist position as a middle class indulgence, in order to avoid the unfashionable reality of socialism as progress. U can hug a tree or glue your self to a train, but none of them can or are willing to take an ideology stance on what true social reform would mean.
Romans 10:9-10 KJV
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Africa is poor because U.S and western countries they are taking oil gas diamond gold minerals Farm and many more other things African continent we need to boycott U.S and western they still want to colonialism in Africa, no more colonial
Its had to believe that a country with so much potential has been sunk into misery by museveni and kagame
There future is so bright, can’t wait to see it
I have been Congo to be specific eastern Congo , from Kivu to Shaba I never ever seen absolutely beautiful land like Congo , ever green , fertile red soil , rain forest , massive rivers breth taking blessed and cursed by minerals .but but fakin politicians and neighbour countries torn apart this country.
Puppet politicians, warlords , etc
This country has been cash cow from king Leopard up to now .
I’m not Congolese but I am African and it’s sad sad
God bless Congo
Why doesn't extraction countries create monopolies like OPEC to charge a price reflective of the costs of extracting the mineral ores. If we cannot attach an economic cost/value to manual labour reflective of the long term costs then it's hard to motivate higher prices for consumers.
The trouble with Ev's.
1. Range anxiety.
2. Explosion fears.
3. 60% depreciation.
4. Elon Musk's connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
5. Exploited Third World child labor.
6. They brick in cold weather.
7. Insanely high insurance rates due to repair costs and the liability of exploding batteries.
8. Insurance companies writing off ev's in a minor crash.
9. Ev battery replacement up to $60,000 or more.
10. Inadequate charging stations powered by diesel generators.
11. Non eco-friendly emissions in a fire and during the manufacturing process.
12. Ev's chew thru tires like a drunken sailor.
13. Tire and brake pollution.
14. Suspension failure.
16. Ev's chew thru brakes like a drunken sailor.
17. Pushed by the WEF.
18. No ability to charge EV if you live in an apartment.
19. Having to wait for EV to charge.
20. Charger point vandalism.
21. Collapsing electric grid cannot cope.
22. Lose charge range in cold weather.
23. If the manufacturer goes out of business, now you have to junk your EV, because it has become worth absolute zero.
24. Absolute nightmare to put out EV fires.
25. Electrical, electronic, and software problems will leave you stranded.
26. Toxic gas vapors from EV explosion will kill you.
27. Not suitable for road trips.
28. Rapid battery degradation over time as miles rack up.
29. Ev's too heavy for crash barriers (guard rails).
30. All Ev charging is paid for with digital currency.
31. Copper thieves are targeting EV charging cables and wind turbines.
32. Ev's are causing double the road damage.
33. Gaslighting from EV manufacturers is pouring gasoline on the fire of EV rejection.
This could have been a blessing when it’s properly managed but greed has turned these resources to a curse in Congo.
The laughable UN,EU,..world council..UNCH…etc the rich countries are ( phatt ) wealthy because of our business as perusal we literally would rather fight & kill ourselves rather than the rich countries that our lives for granted…stole everything from us!!!
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And the wealthy countries continue to fund the civil wars to keep the African country destabilized. Then, they steal the precious resources during the civil wars