Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car

Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade

Sky News investigated the Katanga mines and found Dorsen, 8, and Monica, 4
The pair were working in the vast mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo
They are two of the 40,000 children working daily in the mines, checking rocks for cobalt

Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt – the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

And it’s feared that thousands more children could be about to be dragged into this hellish daily existence – after the historic pledge made by Britain to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and switch to electric vehicles.

It heralds a future of clean energy, free from pollution but – though there can be no doubting the good intentions behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove’s announcement last month – such ideals mean nothing for the children condemned to a life of hellish misery in the race to achieve his target.

It heralds a future of clean energy, free from pollution but

It does nothing of the sort. Electric cars need electricity.

“Green” sources of energy... are not.

Just more stupidity.

...and generally look down on dark people...this won’t bother them...and, all they have to do is say they don’t believe it, and their circle of leftie university type friends get a free pass!

And now, they have convinced their constituents in the NFL to kneel during the national anthem...resulting in a catastrophic growth of empty seats at their games. Will they ever learn?

“They pick on electric cars for these stories but it’s really a small part of the cobalt market.”

Yup. The scale of devices using rechargeable batteries is staggering; cars are but a small part.

The outrage is kinda like people who declared SUV drivers should be shot for wrecking the environment, then proceeded to drive around in their gas-powered cars using 80% of the same fuel.

Yes, BS meter hit for me as well. Cost of food alone would be more per pound of ore then running bulldozers per pound.

According to Wikipedia Glencore a Swiss company started the operation. Then sold it to a Chinese company. I do not know when conditions got this bad. This area looks to be closed for more up to date mining:

here is a video of what it did look like when the Chinese ran it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ8me22NVs

It’s a bit more complicated than this article purports:

“The DRC holds two major distinctions. First, it is the richest country in the world in terms of mineral wealth, at an estimated $24 trillion, and it is the country in which the highest number of people – estimates go as high as ten million – have died due to war since World War II.”

http://www.mining.com/web/congo-and-cobalt-critical/

The DRC is hell on earth with or without cobalt exacerbating the problems. Working the mines is better than being conscripted as a child soldier.

https://witness.org/portfolio_page/protecting-child-soldiers-democratic-republic-congo/

Even better than being “protected” by the UN:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/23/un-peacekeepers-in-congo-hold-record-for-rape-sex-abuse.html

This is not saying we should excuse such abuse, but that it needs to be put into perspective. Life in Africa is still short and brutal for many. Throughout history , no government or organization has succeeded in establishing peace or an equitable economic model—despite having the greatest material resources in the world.

I guess once more ‘white people’ are expected to do something about this outrage. We DID end slavery so I guess the ‘black community’ sees it as our problem. I’m betting even the person who wrote this piece is white.

Here’s my suggestion for the black community: PICK THIS UP AS A PROJECT FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER. Show the rest of us you care about something - anything - other than your selfish selves.

Surprise us... Protest for someone OTHER than yourselves...Protect these young black children WHO REALLY ARE VICTIMS.

If those kids were conceived here in the US they wouldn't have to live such a horrible existence.
Odds are that Liberals would have aborted them before they saw the light of day.
Just cut them out of their mama's wombs like unwanted cysts.
Or they could be shot down in the street by black gangsters and few would notice.
But, if they survived all that, they could live their lives out like pet rats on one of the democrat plantations.

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