Too often, we hear something like "Either the climate is a crisis or it's not a crisis and if it's a crisis, then we have to plow ahead with a radical transformation without worrying too much about the costs." I don't entirely disagree with the...
cobalt
Saving the planet by creating new energy systems under the same system of unregulated capitalism that created the contemporary crisis is.....more than a little problematic. As we continue to have.
Half of the workforce of the artisanal mining sector is comprised of children. Without viable economic alternatives, most children must join their parents in rudimentary mining.
Once again, investigators are exposing the horrors of the global supply chain that corporations rely on for their raw materials and much of their production. This time it is the cobalt used in the tech and automotive industries. Bad stuff here: Cobalt mined by child...