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Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: (trun)
Daily Mail ^ | 5 Aut 2017 | Barbara Jones

Posted on 02/19/2020 7:46:08 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; automotive; cobalt; congo; drc; electricars; energy; greenenergy; mining; savetheplanet
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Think you are a great person for driving an electric car and fighting climate change? Read this.
1 posted on 02/19/2020 7:46:08 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Bloomberg thinks all you do is plant a seed and put a little water


2 posted on 02/19/2020 7:50:20 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

SAVE DUH ERF


3 posted on 02/19/2020 7:52:12 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Oh yeah. How much coal is involved. So there. Nanny nanny boo boo. It’s almost puke worthy to hear the envirowankers talk about ZERO emissions. Really? Follow the production trail dumbasses. Grrrrrrrrr!


4 posted on 02/19/2020 7:57:33 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Wait... I thought these cars were created with magic... They just show up on a car lot and we get to help the world by purchasing them...


5 posted on 02/19/2020 7:58:07 AM PST by Nuke From Orbit
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Seems like a “Blood Diamonds” sort of movement would be in order.

Except for the fact that progressives really place no value on human life, especially that of children. When they say something that sounds like they do, they are just trying to manipulate you.


6 posted on 02/19/2020 8:03:11 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

LOL


7 posted on 02/19/2020 8:05:13 AM PST by gibsosa
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“Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: (trun)”

Let me be the first to say “Thank you!”.


8 posted on 02/19/2020 8:05:42 AM PST by moovova
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To: Nuke From Orbit

Anyone who buys a EV thinking it’s green and thus saving the world is just a fool.


9 posted on 02/19/2020 8:06:38 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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Are Dorsen, Monica, and Richard common names in Democratic Republic of Congo?

10 posted on 02/19/2020 8:12:02 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Among Christians, yes.


11 posted on 02/19/2020 8:13:42 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I saw a news story awhile ago about this. It is sickening and disgusting to even contemplate this horrific abuse of these kids and adults. Man’s inhumanity to man.


12 posted on 02/19/2020 8:14:41 AM PST by miele man
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To: Blood of Tyrants
CHILDREN!

These "Leftists"--stroking their disgusting, overinflated egos and congratulating themselves on their ill-conceived "virtues"--they make any honest, benevolent, decent, intelligent person want to vomit!

13 posted on 02/19/2020 8:15:43 AM PST by Savage Beast (The malevolents' great fear is Trump's commitment to truth. That's scary to the untruthful.)
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Democratic Republic of Congo

The Tesla Slave Plantation.


14 posted on 02/19/2020 8:15:45 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: redshawk

I loved it when someone posted a cartoon with an EV with a plug wire traced back to a fossil fuel power plant. Unfortunately, most of the nimrods in the world have as much knowledge of electrical power generation as they do about where the veggies in the supermarket come from (hint to them, they are not grown in the back of the store).


15 posted on 02/19/2020 8:16:11 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It’s Chinese Communist companies doing this.

Umbrella company is Congo Dongfang which means Congo Orient.

All leftism liberalism is a scam that does exactly opposite what they claim to be for.


16 posted on 02/19/2020 8:20:31 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Dear Greta,

Tell us again about the horror of fossil fuels.


17 posted on 02/19/2020 8:27:10 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: JudgemAll
Bloomberg thinks all you do is plant a seed and put a little water

Plant one million cobalt trees...

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18 posted on 02/19/2020 8:33:58 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Fake news, previously posted and debunked.


19 posted on 02/19/2020 8:54:04 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: miele man

Do you really believe a few kids are doing mining?

ROTFLMAO!


20 posted on 02/19/2020 8:56:32 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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