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"clean green" electric car batteries, An Outsider's Sojourn II, child miners, Cobalt, Congo, Eight-year-old Dorsen, unregulated labour
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Let’s hear it for Elon Musk, his ‘Tesla’ piece of shit, and the entire ‘green revolution’ mob; more perpetrators of corporate-capitalist crimes against humanity/children, and all in the name of “saving the planet”:
African children pay the price for “clean green” electric car battery technology
SOURCE: TALL BLOKE’S TALK SHOP
Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, calls cobalt ‘the new gasoline’ but there are no signs of new wealth in the DRC, where the children haul the rocks brought up from tunnels dug by hand.
Adult miners dig up to 600ft below the surface using basic tools, without protective clothing or modern machinery. Sometimes the children are sent down into the narrow makeshift chambers where there is constant danger of collapse.
Cobalt is such a health hazard that it has a respiratory disease named after it – cobalt lung, a form of pneumonia which causes coughing and leads to…
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That hits the point. The Congo is always paying for Western Progress. At the turn to the 20th Century it was copper for electricity and rubber for mobility and Isolation, now Cobalt, Coltan and other recourses are added to the tragedy!
“Crimes on Congo, from Destruction to Destroyed Independence”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/crimes-on-congo-part-1-from-destruction-to-destroyed-independence/
Regards
One of the stated reasons why so many scientists involved in the race to blame global warming on the use of dirty coals precisely because they understood the consequences for countries who have vast swathes of energy resources as yet untapped.
While we wealthier economies kick back and enjoy the luxury our mining of the past has brought us, those who might have the same opportunities are paying the price, as the poorest(and often unrepresented) always do.
Hi Norman, you know we are on opposite sides of the global warming argument, but I do understand the reasons why taking a side as I have, must never be proof of right. Corporations like ExxonMobil want to rape the planet for profit while others want to profit from the flip side and the result is this gruesome existence for children and adults in impoverished countries.
The scientists who held back on adding their signatures were right to do so and the countries who back the call for man made global warming should be paying for the revenues lost by “keep it in the ground” support instead of turning a blind eye to the suffering such policies are causing. While I may be for going green, it should be my cost to bear and everyone else who wants to do their bit – not unmentioned children in dire poverty.
Thanks for highlighting this, I’ll try and reblog if I can get on my site, have already used share buttons.
Regards, Susan:)
I’m not really seeing this from the angle of climate change so much as from the angle of a rapacious and inhumane system of “money making.”
Whatever people may believe, “climate change” under capitalism will always be of no significance, like absolutely everything else, in comparison to the only thing that matters: profit and opportunities for more profit — whatever the cost.
I totally agree.
Unfortunately the site belonging Tall Bloke’s Talk Shop is exclusively anti climate change, pro fracking, dirty carbon fossil fuels and nuclear. As such, he really couldn’t give a monkey’s nuts about the fate of 168 million children, 85 million of whom are used in hazardous work. He’s simply showcasing their terrible plight in support of his own agenda. Like the AMC in Syria, he is exploiting children to his own ends.
The topic of climate change, under the current circumstances, with mass slaughter and genocides taking place daily by TPTB is rendered moot by comparison. But I was depressed that his lack of genuine concern for these children was evidenced in his other articles and I said so in the comments section.
mohandeer says:
August 10, 2017 at 2:44 pm
I think it worth mentioning child exploitation. Certain people with a given agenda are quite willing to mention child exploitation in respect to their agenda, but no mention is made of the children suffering elsewhere all over the world which sadly for them, are not worth a mention, because they do not enhance support for the agenda being driven. In other words, such children cannot be used to denounce the man made global warming half of the argument who condemn the continued mining and fracking activities of the powerful oil and coal corporates.
Children being exploited anywhere in the world should be a topic of huge concern, but alas, among certain “cliques”, they only qualify for mention because they serve a particular agenda and that is, in and of itself, child exploitation.
I have reblogged this blog because I abhor the misuse of children in any form and am disgusted with the powerful wealth creators willing to dismiss these child victims, wherever they occur.
Can the authour of this particular article also make that claim? Or is the unfortunate and cruel plight of these particular child victims simply a means of platforming their own interests, or those of oil and coal corporations in their continued assault on the dwindling reserves and resources they are hell bent on pillaging?
For your edification:
Global number of children in child labour has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous work (down from 171 million in 2000).
Asia and the Pacific still has the largest numbers (almost 78 million or 9.3% of child population), but Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour (59 million, over 21%).
There are 13 million (8.8%) of children in child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa there are 9.2 million (8.4%).
Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child labourers can be found (98 million, or 59%), but the problems are not negligible in services (54 million) and industry (12 million) – mostly in the informal economy.
Child labour among girls fell by 40% since 2000, compared to 25% for boys.
A most excellent comeback, Susan! When I get a minute, I’ll have to go and note the reactions to your comment. We are, of course, entirely in agreement.