GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION CHILD LABOR ACTIVIST BENNY PEISER REPORTS:
Green Killers:
Congo’s Miners Dying to Feed
World’s Hunger for Electric Cars
Exploited by Chinese firms, workers as young as nine risk their lives to feed the world’s growing hunger for cobalt.
Solange Kanena sits on her broken orange sofa, heavily pregnant...she wonders how she will feed her eight children. Her husband died in a mining accident 10 days ago. She has never held an iPhone and has no idea what an electric car is. But her husband... was digging for a commodity that is critical to the batteries of both: cobalt.
Last year about 70% of the world’s supply came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest, most violent and corrupt places on Earth...
Without DR Congo there is no electric car industry and no green revolution... Child labour is common and safety standards are non-existent.
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