Paria sans portefeuille · @PariaSansPortefeuille
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"Spend a short time the watching the filth-caked children of the Katanga region scrounge at the earth for #cobalt, and you would be unable to determine whether they were working for the benefit of [King] Leopold or a #tech company."
#CobaltRed: How the Blood of the #Congo Powers Our Lives
Interview with author #SiddharthKara
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/13/cobalt_red_kara
#DRC #extractivism #BigTech #mining #CobaltMining #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #ModernSlavery #books #ChildLabour #ecocide
#cobalt #tech #cobaltred #congo #siddharthkara #drc #extractivism #bigtech #mining #cobaltmining #democraticrepublicofcongo #modernslavery #books #childlabour #ecocide
Paria sans portefeuille · @PariaSansPortefeuille
137 followers · 1019 posts · Server jasette.facil.services"Spend a short time the watching the filth-caked children of the Katanga region scrounge at the earth for #cobalt, and you would be unable to determine whether they were working for the benefit of [King] Leopold or a #tech company."
#SiddharthKara, author of #CobaltRed: How the Blood of the #Congo Powers Our Lives
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/13/cobalt_red_kara
#DRC #extractivism #BigTech #mining #CobaltMining #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #ModernSlavery #books #ChildLabour #ecocide
#cobalt #tech #siddharthkara #cobaltred #congo #drc #extractivism #bigtech #mining #cobaltmining #democraticrepublicofcongo #modernslavery #books #childlabour #ecocide
Exile · @I_Choose_Exile
173 followers · 513 posts · Server mstdn.socialI'm really interested in reading #CobaltRed by #SiddharthKara, but I need to finish all of my unread #Kindle #eBook "pandemic purchases" first.
NPR Fresh Air interviewed Kara, who clarified that he's *not advocating for us to stop using mobile phones, laptops or EV. Rather, he argues that we are all implicated in the #ModernDaySlavery of #cobalt supply chains and therefore must push companies & governments to act.
#CobaltMines #Congo #HumanTrafficking #ChildLabor
🎙https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2023/02/01/1153372238/fresh-air-for-feb-1-2023-cobalt-mining-leads-to-modern-day-slavery-in-the-congo
#childlabor #humantrafficking #congo #cobaltmines #cobalt #moderndayslavery #ebook #kindle #siddharthkara #cobaltred
Paria sans portefeuille · @PariaSansPortefeuille
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"What you find in the Congo is a complete hellscape of utter human degradation, utter environmental destruction in this scramble to get #cobalt out of the ground and up the chain as quickly as possible."
#SiddharthKara, author of #CobaltRed: How the Blood of the #Congo Powers Our Lives
From King Leopold II to #BigTech: The Pillage of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day #Slavery
#DRC #extractivism #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #ModernSlavery #books
#books #modernslavery #democraticrepublicofcongo #extractivism #drc #slavery #bigtech #congo #cobaltred #siddharthkara #cobalt