Or you phone's battery, or your computer's battery, or you iPad's battery, or ...Biden turns to country with documented child labor issues for green energy mineral supplies: 'It's egregious' | Fox News
Anything that has a lithium-ion battery needs cobalt. The bulk of the world's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There is one major problem with that.
However, independent investigations conducted in recent years by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Amnesty International have documented how many cobalt mines located in the DRC employ child laborers. The Biden administration also released a report in October showing that child labor continues to take place in the mines.
"Many children we spoke to told us that they were frequently ill. Inhaling cobalt dust can cause hard metal lung disease — a potentially fatal condition," a 2016 Amnesty International report stated. "Skin contact with cobalt can cause dermatitis — a chronic rash. Yet the children and other miners have neither masks nor gloves to protect them."
But hey, you are doing your part for the environment! Pay no attention to the environmental devastation in South America brought on by lithium mining, or the environmental problems of nickle mining in Indonesia. You are being Green! (Don't clutter the issue with facts.)
But hey, this administration doesn't seem to care about child trafficking across the US border, why should the care about child slavery in cobalt mines half a world away?
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