Posted on 08/08/2017 12:05:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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 didnt consider in his clean energy crusade
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 its 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 Goves announcement last month such ideals mean nothing for the children condemned to a life of hellish misery in the race to achieve his target.
Dorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death. Almost every big motor manufacturer striving to produce millions of electric vehicles buys its cobalt from the impoverished central African state. It is the worlds biggest producer, with 60
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
:Snort!:
Yeah.... riiight.
An easy choice.
Have no fear.
Once Libs have finished tearing down all of Western civilization, your children and mine will get to experience these things in an effort to scrap by.
Mark my words....
“Do you guys really believe 100% of this without further corroboration?”
Amazing how one will believe whatever they want based on their biases ...
“What were conditions in the mines like before electric cars”
What are the conditions in the major mines now?
Cobalt from German Kobalt, from Middle High German kobolt, variant of kobold, goblin, so named because its toxic ores were treacherous to mine.
"Democratic" Republic of the Congo?
Yeah, I do.
Next time I see one of those morons in their electric car guess what I’m telling them ,LOL
Then you probably ignore this photo of one of the major mines in the DRC ...
“Next time I see one of those morons in their electric car guess what Im telling them ,LOL”
That you have been sucked in by a click-bait article?
Reality is like sunlight to a vampire, with liberals.
“Reality is like sunlight to a vampire, with liberals.”
So, your total expertise in this subject is reading the above headline?
“This article is really telling greenies and libs willing to have their EV playtoys at the expense of children world wide. “
LOL! One click-bait article and you are now an expert!
I don't suppose you know what a real mine in DRC looks like so I will show you one.
” Proper disposal of them can be a YUUUGE environmental problem. “
Actually, just like the battery in your car, they have a value in the recycled materials.
One good looking mine does not a decent country make.
But do feeeel free to continue your ongoing campaign to paint the rest of the world, anywhere but America, in your favorite shade of Potemkin pink....
“One click-bait article and you are now an expert!
Not really, I was looking the number in the article that says 40,000 children work the mines. You give us a picture of a normal looking mine and claim it is what produces the Cobalt. Why should we believe you?
Why should we believe some anonymous internet poster such as you that says Cobalt mining is good, clean mining?
This child being abused in a cobalt mine is why Apple is trying to fix the mining business
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