runs the Congo. They're all basically working for him.
He's a billionaire and he asks ZERO questions about the conditions.
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 didn’t 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 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.
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 world’s biggest producer, with 60
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I guess you’re too busy to even bother to actually read the article! Proving once again the old adage, better to be thought a fool rather than to post on FR and remove all doubt.
Stop humping my leg, creep.
Still not interested.
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Thou shalt not question The Great Omniscient One, serf!
He knows all, sees all and never STFU about anything.
runs the Congo. They're all basically working for him.
He's a billionaire and he asks ZERO questions about the conditions.
Yup. You got me. I've developed a bad habit of 'headline reading'.
I'll work on that.
To be fair, Electric batteries are really trendy and make some people shedloads of money.
Looks like a bunch of scabs scrounging the slag heap.
Somebody call sally struthers...
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