While no one likes to hear that their Tesla, lithium battery, smartphone, or fitness tracker has cost a child his health—or worse, his life—this is the reality of cobalt mining today.
Child exploitation claims are casting a large shadow as a new case goes to court. Looking the other way won’t do any more, at least not if these major firms lose the legal argument – which would mean higher product prices. Not what the so-called ‘EV revolution’ needs, with high prices and other issues already deterring buyers.
Cobalt is one of the most important metals in the tech industry, but the use of child labor in cobalt mines in the DRC is a major problem for Big Tech and electric car manufacturers, says OilPrice.com.
There’s a chance that the iPhone you’re about to get for Christmas contains cobalt mined by a six-year-old. There’s also a chance that that six-year-old has been killed or maimed in the processes of mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the lion’s share of the world’s cobalt comes from.
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
More awful heavy metal pollution in less induatrially damaged countries , using slave labor
People seldom stop and think, that some of the cell phone factories in places like South Korea, are powered by Nuclear Reactors, where there are 22 beat up old reactors in a relatively small area.
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I wasn’t aware South Korea had nuclear reactors, Gloria? Is there an antinuclear movement there?
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