8/8/2023 0 Comments Carbon to cobalt reviews![]() ![]() How many of us know where that cobalt comes from? I know I didn’t. This life style is made possible because of batteries that use cobalt and are manufactured in China. Like you, my daily life has become reliant on this power source. And when we trade in our leased car, I expect its replacement choices will all be EV cars. I wear a smart watch, with a rechargeable battery. I brushed my teeth this morning with an electric toothbrush with, yes, a rechargeable battery. I am writing this review on my laptop with a rechargeable battery, looking at my tablet with a rechargeable battery. Please tell the people in your country, a child of the Congo dies every day so that they can plug in their phones. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.Ĭobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestsellerĪn unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all.Ĭobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. ![]()
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