Cobalt Red
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
This program includes an author's note read by the author.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.
Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial audiobook, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo—because we are all implicated.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
Customer Reviews
King Leopold would be proud
Hard hitting and focused, all the sources and evidence are provided if you both to look. He spends significant time on the Chinese, but considering they own 79% of cobalt production, I’d say that’s pretty unbiased.
Wake up call
My iPhone is burning my hand now. Thank you for illuminating this reality.
Good but beware biased info
Good informative book about modern slavery but the author, an Indian American, does not shy away from making the Chinese people look as pure evil as possible compared to the rest of the other country people there doing and thinking exactly the same thing. Take everything you read in this book with a grain of salt.