Is the support of electric vehicles tantamount to supporting slavery?
Cobalt mainly comes from the Congo, the country raped by the belgians in colonial times. Cobalt mining there is modern slavery. By encouraging this trade, the 'green' members of society are in fact consigning thousands of children and women to labour in terrible conditions."We shouldn't be transitioning to the use of electric vehicles at the cost of the people and environment of one of the most downtrodden and impoverished corners of the world," he says. "The bottom of the supply chain, where almost all the world's cobalt is coming from, is a horror show." Kara, a fellow at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Kennedy Schoolhttps://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara
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