The Hidden Cost of Cobalt

Content warning: this post discusses child labour, violence, sexual violence, and colonial atrocities. It is not graphic, but the subject is heavy. If you want the short version: the batteries in our phones, laptops, and electric vehicles are largely made of cobalt, most of the world's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a significant portion of it is mined by hand, often by children, under conditions that should have never existed, and people assume do not in this day and age. Slavery is real and alive, and we all reap the rewards of these atrocities.

Full post: https://www.kenreid.co.uk/blog/hidden-cost-of-cobalt-congo.html