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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki
Glad you feel good driving your Tesla - how do you feel about 7 year olds mining the Colbat in the battery?
Amnesty International says human rights abuses, including the use of child labour, in the extraction of minerals, like cobalt, used to make the batteries that power electric vehicles is undermining ethical claims about the cars.
Artisanal miners as young as seven were seen by researchers who visited nine sites including deep mines dug by hand using basic tools. Miners, the youngest of whom were earning as little as $1 a day, reported suffering chronic lung disease from exposure to cobalt dust.
The dirty secret of electric vehicles | World Economic Forum |
That’s terrible hopefully that will end. Unfortunately this happens in many industries on a wide variety of products we have in our possession.
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths | Global development | The Guardian