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Child Miners Aged 4 Living a Hell on Earth so YOU Can Drive an Electric Car: Awful Human Cost...
Daily Mail ^ | 6 August 2017 | Barbara

Posted on 08/08/2017 12:05:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
though there can be no doubting the good intentions

:Snort!:

Yeah.... riiight.

21 posted on 08/08/2017 12:51:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: nickcarraway
The kid can work; or, the kid can starve.

An easy choice.

22 posted on 08/08/2017 12:53:08 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

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....


23 posted on 08/08/2017 12:55:13 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: CurlyDave

“Do you guys really believe 100% of this without further corroboration?”

Amazing how one will believe whatever they want based on their biases ...


24 posted on 08/08/2017 1:01:53 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: CurlyDave

“What were conditions in the mines like before electric cars”

What are the conditions in the major mines now?


25 posted on 08/08/2017 1:03:01 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: nickcarraway

Cobalt from German Kobalt, from Middle High German kobolt, variant of kobold, goblin, so named because its toxic ores were treacherous to mine.


26 posted on 08/08/2017 1:04:29 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: CurlyDave
Do you guys really believe 100% of this without further corroboration?

"Democratic" Republic of the Congo?

Yeah, I do.

27 posted on 08/08/2017 1:08:08 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: nickcarraway

Next time I see one of those morons in their electric car guess what I’m telling them ,LOL


28 posted on 08/08/2017 1:20:15 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: null and void
"Yeah, I do."

Then you probably ignore this photo of one of the major mines in the DRC ...


29 posted on 08/08/2017 1:25:26 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: butlerweave

“Next time I see one of those morons in their electric car guess what I’m telling them ,LOL”

That you have been sucked in by a click-bait article?


30 posted on 08/08/2017 1:26:13 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: lilypad

Reality is like sunlight to a vampire, with liberals.


31 posted on 08/08/2017 1:27:08 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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32 posted on 08/08/2017 1:29:06 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Salamander

“Reality is like sunlight to a vampire, with liberals.”

So, your total expertise in this subject is reading the above headline?


33 posted on 08/08/2017 1:33:22 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“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!


34 posted on 08/08/2017 1:37:27 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: NEMDF
"Heartbreaking. Do you suppose the electric car fanatics even know or care about this?"

I don't suppose you know what a real mine in DRC looks like so I will show you one.


35 posted on 08/08/2017 1:39:13 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Impala64ssa

” 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.


36 posted on 08/08/2017 1:42:05 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

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....


37 posted on 08/08/2017 1:43:48 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: TexasGator

“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?


38 posted on 08/08/2017 1:46:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: TexasGator
Here's another article from Washington Post touting the harm of Cobalt mining: The cobalt pipeline.

Why should we believe some anonymous internet poster such as you that says Cobalt mining is good, clean mining?

39 posted on 08/08/2017 1:49:50 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: TexasGator
Here's another article claiming Apple is trying to do something about the Cobalt mining issue. Now why in the world would they do that if there are no issues as you are trying to claim??

This child being abused in a cobalt mine is why Apple is trying to fix the mining business

40 posted on 08/08/2017 1:51:40 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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