The appetite for electric cars is driving a boom in small-scale cobalt production in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some mines have been found to be dangerous and employ child labor.

Production from so-called artisanal mines probably rose by at least half last year, according to the estimates of officials at three of the biggest international suppliers of the metal, who asked not to be named because they’re not authorized to speak on the matter. State-owned miner Gecamines estimates artisanal output accounted for as much as a quarter of the country’s total production in 2017.

That’s a concern for carmakers from Volkswagen AG to Tesla Inc., who are seeking to secure long-term supplies of the battery ingredient but don’t want to be enmeshed in a scandal about unethical mining practices. Tech giants including Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. endured bad publicity after a 2016 Amnesty International report said children were being sent down some Congolese mines to dig for cobalt destined for their gadgets. Pit and tunnel collapses killed dozens of workers in 2015, the advocacy group said.

If you had spent any time around liberals you would know they don't give a flying fuck about any of that.

They would easily strangle a puppy and drown a white baby with their own hands if they thought it would allow them to virtue signal to a bigger audience.

Libs hate humanity. They do love being on a year or two long waiting list to pay a minimum of $35k for a car they will never drive before purchasing. That's how fucking stupid libs are.

Oil kills way more than cobalt ever will.

It's not true at all.

The local government, who makes tax money off of whites and asians paying to mine soil in africa, don't give these people aid or produce any jobs. (they just spend the taxes on themselves)

The people your talking about (which you haven't verified yet - so your likely a TROLL), decide for themselves to illegally do mining on someone else's property and are sometimes injured in their endeavors. They have no internet access or accumen to learn before they do, nor any home depot or such to buy safety equipment from.

That's %100 not on the conscience of Americans buying goods mined in Africa by eurasian and american companies.

OP is a TELEMUNDO troll promoting white depression

the fact is: go home telemundo

n7k3k Wrote:
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> It's not true at all.
>
> The local government, who makes tax money off of
> whites and asians paying to mine soil in africa,
> don't give these people aid or produce any jobs.
> (they just spend the taxes on themselves)
>
> The people your talking about (which you haven't
> verified yet - so your likely a TROLL), decide for
> themselves to illegally do mining on someone
> else's property and are sometimes injured in their
> endeavors. They have no internet access or
> accumen to learn before they do, nor any home
> depot or such to buy safety equipment from.
>
> That's %100 not on the conscience of Americans
> buying goods mined in Africa by eurasian and
> american companies.


Precisely! Hence, libs hate humanity and have no conscious.

Do you guys need to politicize everything that happens in the world? I swear to God, you're all like a bunch of Italian grandmothers sitting around in black dresses talking about the end of the world...

I drive a 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, my drink is Knob Creek, my steak is medium-well, my hunting rifles are Browning and my vote is Democrat. The world is not a black and white place. Less divides us then joins us.

Huh??? Wrote:
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> Do you guys need to politicize everything that
> happens in the world? I swear to God, you're all
> like a bunch of Italian grandmothers sitting
> around in black dresses talking about the end of
> the world...
>
> I drive a 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, my drink is
> Knob Creek, my steak is medium-well, my hunting
> rifles are Browning and my vote is Democrat. The
> world is not a black and white place. Less divides
> us then joins us.


The dems are the hateful divisive folks. Why do you support them?

nigga what? Wrote:
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> Huh??? Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Do you guys need to politicize everything that
> > happens in the world? I swear to God, you're
> all
> > like a bunch of Italian grandmothers sitting
> > around in black dresses talking about the end
> of
> > the world...
> >
> > I drive a 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, my drink
> is
> > Knob Creek, my steak is medium-well, my hunting
> > rifles are Browning and my vote is Democrat.
> The
> > world is not a black and white place. Less
> divides
> > us then joins us.
>
>
> The dems are the hateful divisive folks. Why do
> you support them?

Everyone sees what they want to see. The folks I turn wrenches with on our weekend project cars, drop deer with, taste small batch with, grill meat with and grab pussy with vote across the spectrum. We don't have time to be divided and hateful...we're too busy having fun.

For every Democrat that meets your definition or devisive, I can point the finger at an equal number of Republican Christians who reject anyone who doesn't share their beliefs regardless of how they vote.

There are plenty of things besides cobalt that are produced by child labor, at least in part, and under terrible conditions. The idiot OP is cherry picking one product, cobalt, and one kind of car to make his idiotic point. Thousands of products use cobalt. You can't fly on a plane, drive any kind of car, use a phone, and most other things you do in the modern world without using cobalt to some degree.

Moron.

I hope you care at least as much about the kids massacred in Florida.