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 ...
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).
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I’ve been researching solar power and bicycle generated power for my off grid two room cabin. Solar power is possible, it just depends upon how much money you want to spend. Therefore, to keep the cost reasonable, I have to limit my watt-hours, which means limiting and prioritizing my electrical gadgets and appliances. For example, to charge a laptop battery, I need 2 hours of “perfect” solar conditions to charge the battery. .....
I like the graphic idea of the EV plugged into a coal plant. As Rush always says, you ain’t going to power no jet plane with electricity. ...
Perfect pic. I just said we need a pic like that. Thanks.
It also takes miners to get the elements necessary for solar panels.
And I can assure you they ain’t using electricity to power the excavators that dig for those minerals.
As a German entrepreneur in Costa Rica said to me, regarding Costa Ricans he had dispersed from the land to the city and a life of probable prostitution, “They are not my problem.”
It also takes miners to get the elements necessary for solar panels.
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I did not know that. I guess my solar cabin will now just be home made candles, firewood, and a bicycle generator.
My great grandfather worked in a sweatshop as a boy. ... Just awful places.
Two disparate thoughts 1) Without the mine, this kid might have no means of survival at all. Let’s not be so quick to want to shut it down. That’s life in Africa 2) State-sponsored, debt-funded and PC first-world social-engineering eco-schemes are a huge misallocation of resources, and as with all centrally planned political-economic projects - serious economic and environmental malformations will appear, like in Africa.
Too bad so many are ignorant about the democrats/Communists/left.
“Seems like a “Blood Diamonds” sort of movement would be in order.”
So we get Leo DiCaprio to star in a thriller about cobalt mining?
It’s not Congo, but when I was deployed to HOA, as late as OCT 2016, there were groups of malnourished, sick, and barefoot kids down to approximately four or five (maybe younger), either taken from parents, (or parents dead), living in groups without blankets or shelter, digging trenches with rudimentary and broken tools, for all kinds of stuff, including for graves.
There were sometimes Chinese, sometimes Somali or Kenyian al-Shabaab/al-Mujahhideen worker/soldiers involved, telling armed Somali guards what to do with the children. Sometimes won’t even see them until they crawl out of a trench or hole in the ground.
I could go on all day with stories related to children, our guys have encountered in countries all over Africa.
Honestly, for many, what we have experienced there is as bad, or harder to deal with than many other experiences.
That a four year old child is “picking through gravel/rock is nothing for me to believe, and forever familiar. This kind of thing really impacted me...
Great post!
“That a four year old child is “picking through gravel/rock is nothing for me to believe, and forever familiar. “
Scavenging, but not mining.
Recall a few years ago there was a discussion here about China building entire cities and how could they do that - someone posted a picture of a crane operator, about 10 years old with sunglasses on smoking a cigarette
thanks
How about “Democratic Republic of the Car-go!”
Thanks for the tip. Selling my Tesla stock!
Really? I’d like to see it.
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