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The shaming images that show where our iPhones, laptops, and Tesla cars REALLY come from: The truth about the Congolese mines where kids are paid $2-a-day to dig for cobalt.
Daily Mail ^ | 30 January 2023 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 01/30/2023 7:46:16 AM PST by hillarys cankles

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To: Paal Gulli

To help put things in perspective:

From Numbeo website, regarding food prices in the Congo:
Loaf of Fresh White Bread (50.00 g) 0.15 $


21 posted on 01/30/2023 10:06:39 AM PST by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: hillarys cankles

$2 a day. Seems high to me. Don’t they know they are saving the planet? $1 a day should be fine. Oh I know. Al Gore can give them carbon credits to sell. “Each day you work, you get a carbon credit you can sell back to the mine owner.”


22 posted on 01/30/2023 12:38:24 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: PGR88

Yep. Thanks EPA and liberals for shutting down America’s mineral exploitation.


23 posted on 01/30/2023 12:39:10 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: hillarys cankles

Sad to see young children working that way, covered in chemicals.


24 posted on 01/30/2023 6:08:04 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: hillarys cankles
Meanwhile...

Biden blocks mineral mining on 225,000 miles of land, harming EV production needs

25 posted on 01/31/2023 5:52:12 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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[snip] The first quarter of this year, amid the tremendous din of Musk’s desired acquisition of the social platform Twitter, Tesla revealed that nearly half of its vehicles produced in that time frame featured cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. [/snip]

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/5/6/23060115/elon-musk-and-his-success-with-a-cobalt-free-ev-battery-at-tesla-congo-lithium-child-labor-abuse


26 posted on 01/31/2023 7:17:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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