So you have people with no alternative, no other source of income, no livelihood. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced because their villages were just bulldozed over to make place for large mining concessions. Imagine an entire population of people who cannot survive without scrounging in hazardous conditions for a dollar or two a day.
"The bottom of the supply chain, where almost all the world's cobalt is coming from, is a horror show."…
“"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. I don’t understand knowing this is happening & not trying to use as little cobalt as possible. I’m reading Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red, now and it’s harrowing.
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