‘Here it is better not to be born’: Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo.

Child labor, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/phone-electric-vehicle-congo-cobalt-mine-b2277665.html

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The good news is cobalt is no longer needed for #EV batteries, it’s just in phones, computers and used for refining Diesel & Petroleum 👍