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How Child-Mined Cobalt From The Congo Powers Our Phones
How Child-Mined Cobalt From The Congo Powers Our Phones
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Over 40,000 children are estimated to be working in Congolese cobalt mines. The harsh realities of the cobalt mining industry in the Congo can be traced back through centuries of exploitation of the country. How did we get here?
Author and journalist Siddharth Kara, and others, share their…
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This is so eye-opening and really puts into perspective that we need to activate our humanity and engineering to find a humane solution. May we see a free DRC in our lifetime❤
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This actually makes my phone and electronics feel more badass
Question – what efforts are being made to make the Chinese – who per this video own the vast majority of mining – pay workers?
Everybody commenting from their phones like..🧑🦯➡️👩🦯
If you talk about minerals and Resources Africa is the Superpower.
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honestly, don't care. keep scrolling
With the push from government to go green, and Biden wanting 50% of the cars sold to be ev's by 2030, I don't see this problem getting better any time soon.
"In 2030, 50% of the cars sold in the United States, we believe, should be, and must be, electric vehicles." – Joe Biden
"We have to take combustion vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can." – Joe Biden
I'm sure none of that child mined cobalt is used to desulfurize gasoline and diesel. Oh… wait…
This really made me think about my phone, computer, etc., and how F’d up it is that we don’t do anything to resolve this and it’s SUCH an essential part of our lives! We need to do something!
Some part in video are not thru others are old, they were not shooted when Kara came in DRC
There is a lot to say to correct the vodeo.