Siddharth Kara, author of “Cobalt Red: How The Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives,” said that there’s no such thing as “clean cobalt.’”
A Harvard visiting professor and modern slavery activist exposed the “appalling” cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” that went viral. The video has already racked up over one million views and counting.
“I’ve never seen one and I’ve been to almost all the major industrial cobalt mines” in the country, Kara said. is exceptionally high: “Cobalt is in every single lithium, rechargeable battery manufactured in the world today,” he explained. The Joe Rogan Experience Harvard visiting Professor Siddharth Kara said there were zero cobalt mines in the Congo that did not rely on child labor or slavery.The Biden administration recently entered into an agreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to bolsterCobalt initially “took off because it was used in lithium-ion batteries to maximize their charge and stability,” Kara explained. “And it just so happened that the Congo is sitting on more cobalt than the rest of the planet combined,” he added.
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