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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: ABX on August 10, 2017, 03:43:27 am

Title: Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car
Post by: ABX on August 10, 2017, 03:43:27 am

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Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt – the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764208/Child-miners-aged-four-living-hell-Earth.html#ixzz4pJvVGvgF
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Title: Re: Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car
Post by: bigheadfred on August 11, 2017, 01:55:41 am

I knew if I read the story the Chinese would figure largely in it.