Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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Everyone who has a mobile phone, charger or battery should listen to or read this book to understand the cost to other people's lives in contributing to our entitled consumer desires to have the latest technology. Tin was discovered five thousand years ago and mixed with copper to make bronze, the first alloy harder than its constituent metals. Your mother is also under constant threat of sexual harassment, assault and rape as she works at the mines.

I don’t think this is a problem everyday people can solve, but I do think it’s important to be aware of what is happening around us. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo—because we are all implicated. In the the time of the Soviet Union communist scare, he rose to power rallying against corporations stealing the value of the land of its people only to be ousted in interventionism by the US and Belgium. Imagine a giant ball of clay pinched at two ends—southwest from Kinshasa to the ocean, and southeast in a terrestrial peninsula that traces the Copper Belt.The sick and dead infected by the disease were never counted, adding an unknown number to the industry’s bleak tally.

The severity of harm being caused by cobalt mining is sadly not a new experience for the people of the Congo. The downtrodden were forced to dig in hazardous conditions with little regard to their safety and for little to no compensation. The Congolese military and other security forces are omnipresent in mining areas, making access to mining sites dangerous and at times impossible.Kolwezi is tucked in the hazy hills of the southeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Cobalt Red is a riveting, eye-opening, terribly important book that sheds light on a vast ongoing catastrophe.As a result, demand for cobalt is expected to grow by almost 500 percent from 2018 to 2050,3 and there is no known place on earth to find that amount of cobalt other than the DRC. He tells the story of Congo and cobalt and all that has happened to the author in a straightforward, easy to listen to way and I am so grateful to have received this audiobook; it made an already very difficult read a teeny bit easier. For thirty-two years, Mobutu supported the Western agenda, kept Katanga’s minerals flowing in their direction, and enriched himself just as egregiously as the colonizers who came before him.

The flow of minerals and money is further obscured by a web of shady connections between foreign mining companies and Congolese political leaders, some of whom have become scandalously rich auctioning the country’s mining concessions while tens of millions of Congolese people suffer extreme poverty, food insecurity, and civil strife. His books on modern slavery are Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017). The author makes governments around the world who sign up to the Net Zero/Just Transition farce look like the con artists they really are.Kara also dissects the cobalt supply chain that provides for the world while devastating so many Congolese. This book is full As we follow this road, the conditions of cobalt mining will be revealed with each passing mile through the firsthand accounts of the children, women, and men who dig for cobalt, as well as my own reporting on the mineral traders, government officials, multinational corporations, and other stakeholders that profit from their work. Few people sitting for breakfast in England in the 1700s knew that their tea was sweetened by sugar harvested under brutal conditions by African slaves toiling in the West Indies.



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