Beyond the Oil Age: The real cost of cobalt mining in DRC | Dying Earth E4 | Featured Documentary
Beyond the Oil Age: The real cost of cobalt mining in DRC | Dying Earth E4 | Featured Documentary
The dark side of ‘green energy’: The real cost of cobalt mining in the DRC and how it impacts the nation’s environment.
From smartphones to aircraft engines to the batteries of electric cars, cobalt is a critical component of modern life since the metal protects batteries from overheating and catching fire, extending their lifespans. As…
source
Reviews
0 %
Isn't it mind boggling that mining trumps food production? Don't they have some of the worlds most fertile land available to them? Why are the people starving? Time to set some new priorities!
But the documentary singles out China as the one buying most of the minerals but puts all the blame on the US & Europe.
This is both an external and internal issues but utimately, congolose people will have to find a way to fight this crisis by themselves in order to come out in full control of these resources. With great power, comes great responsability. It is normal for a place like congo to be ravaged by these kind of issues when the whole world wants a piece of you and wants to weaken you in order to get a better deal. But "come what may be, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance" -Virgil.
The exact link between global industry and local mining terror would be interesting too. THX
Congo 😢
Thanks so much for posting
There is a better way. Get the metal from the ocean floor. Polymetalic nodules. The Metals Company is going to start collecting them in a year.
Get these poor people out of the mines, please.
If they sent out UN in their region they will be benefiting in their work
I want to know more about the "medicine" they're putting in the lake….
Such BS! The majority of BEV today don’t use Cobalt! Lithium Iron Phosphate! The poor can keep the Cobalt we won’t need it.
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.
Haile Selassie
Tags: 1963-address-to-UN
A bit rich that Al Jazeera – sponsored by Qatar – is doing a series on climate change
(lets see how long till this comment gets deleted)
I preferred Al jazeera in documentary than their news item which they are bias.
I've always considered the environmentalist position as a middle class indulgence, in order to avoid the unfashionable reality of socialism as progress. U can hug a tree or glue your self to a train, but none of them can or are willing to take an ideology stance on what true social reform would mean.
Romans 10:9-10 KJV
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Africa is poor because U.S and western countries they are taking oil gas diamond gold minerals Farm and many more other things African continent we need to boycott U.S and western they still want to colonialism in Africa, no more colonial
Its had to believe that a country with so much potential has been sunk into misery by museveni and kagame
There future is so bright, can’t wait to see it
I have been Congo to be specific eastern Congo , from Kivu to Shaba I never ever seen absolutely beautiful land like Congo , ever green , fertile red soil , rain forest , massive rivers breth taking blessed and cursed by minerals .but but fakin politicians and neighbour countries torn apart this country.
Puppet politicians, warlords , etc
This country has been cash cow from king Leopard up to now .
I’m not Congolese but I am African and it’s sad sad
God bless Congo
Why doesn't extraction countries create monopolies like OPEC to charge a price reflective of the costs of extracting the mineral ores. If we cannot attach an economic cost/value to manual labour reflective of the long term costs then it's hard to motivate higher prices for consumers.
The trouble with Ev's.
1. Range anxiety.
2. Explosion fears.
3. 60% depreciation.
4. Elon Musk's connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
5. Exploited Third World child labor.
6. They brick in cold weather.
7. Insanely high insurance rates due to repair costs and the liability of exploding batteries.
8. Insurance companies writing off ev's in a minor crash.
9. Ev battery replacement up to $60,000 or more.
10. Inadequate charging stations powered by diesel generators.
11. Non eco-friendly emissions in a fire and during the manufacturing process.
12. Ev's chew thru tires like a drunken sailor.
13. Tire and brake pollution.
14. Suspension failure.
16. Ev's chew thru brakes like a drunken sailor.
17. Pushed by the WEF.
18. No ability to charge EV if you live in an apartment.
19. Having to wait for EV to charge.
20. Charger point vandalism.
21. Collapsing electric grid cannot cope.
22. Lose charge range in cold weather.
23. If the manufacturer goes out of business, now you have to junk your EV, because it has become worth absolute zero.
24. Absolute nightmare to put out EV fires.
25. Electrical, electronic, and software problems will leave you stranded.
26. Toxic gas vapors from EV explosion will kill you.
27. Not suitable for road trips.
28. Rapid battery degradation over time as miles rack up.
29. Ev's too heavy for crash barriers (guard rails).
30. All Ev charging is paid for with digital currency.
31. Copper thieves are targeting EV charging cables and wind turbines.
32. Ev's are causing double the road damage.
33. Gaslighting from EV manufacturers is pouring gasoline on the fire of EV rejection.
This could have been a blessing when it’s properly managed but greed has turned these resources to a curse in Congo.
The laughable UN,EU,..world council..UNCH…etc the rich countries are ( phatt ) wealthy because of our business as perusal we literally would rather fight & kill ourselves rather than the rich countries that our lives for granted…stole everything from us!!!
🥲🥲
And the wealthy countries continue to fund the civil wars to keep the African country destabilized. Then, they steal the precious resources during the civil wars
Great Documentary, but the wheel has already been invented even when it comes to supply and demand, i leverage what you want and what i have for the betterment of my country! I feel for the poor people, their health and the destruction of the land and water, but over the decades i have accepted the fact that Black Africans countries are just fine other's taking their natural resources!
If you think this is bad now, wait until electric vehicles become "mainstream." It has precedent: the Congolese suffered greatly when automobiles emerged as the "next big thing" in the technological revolution. They worked on slave-like rubber plantations for Belgium's King Leopold, who considered the entire Congo "private property." Among other uses, the rubber would feed the tire industry, a significant supplier to the automotive sector.
They have extracted trees to build there houses and now they will extract again to breathe clean air and Africans will be left with nothing
Normalize Ⓐctive unions and worker co-ops. Democratize🗳️the workplace. Workers make the earth run, workers should run the earth☭.🌎🏴🇨🇩🇨🇬
it is all just slavery in another skin.
In an age where you can travel from one side of the planet to the other in a single day, there is no excuse for inequality except intent.
Considering the biblical timelines, we are now clearly living just before the Second Coming and The Kingdom of the Lord Jesus who will rule as King of Kings from Jerusalem.
Calculated from Adam to the death/resurrection of The Lord Jesus is 4000 years. This can be calculated from the gender lines. From the death/resurrection of The Lord Jesus until now is almost 2000 years. Added up, you end up with approximately 6,000 years.
From Genesis chapter 6 verse 3 we read that God gives humanity 120 jubilee years. A Jubilee is 50 years according to Leviticus 25 verse 8. If we multiply 120 times 50, we arrive at 6,000 years.
It should be clear given the events in the world that it is close and everything will get worse and worse until the Second Coming.
And just before the Lord Jesus returns, the Mount of Olives will split into two as one can read in Zechariah 14 verse 4. And coincidentally or not, there is also a fault line under Jerusalem. And that was prophesied over 2,500 years ago.
And the nations will fight over Jerusalem, we read in Zechariah 12 verse 2. God will personally make Jerusalem like a heavy stone to the world. Zechariah 12 verse 3.
The Kingdom is coming. And only faith in The Lord Jesus as Son of God can save you and bring you to eternity! !
❤
Read the book "Cobalt Red" by Siddharth Kara.
❤