Joe Rogan podcast guest explains 'heart-wrenching' source of electric vehicle, iPhone batteries in viral videoA Harvard visiting professor and modern slavery activist exposed the "appalling" cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" that went viral. The video has already racked up over one million views and counting.
Siddharth Kara, author of "Cobalt Red: How The Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives," told podcast host Joe Rogan that there’s no such thing as "clean cobalt.’"
"That’s all marketing," Kara said.
Kara told Rogan that the level of "suffering" of the Congolese people working in cobalt mines was astounding.
When asked by Rogan if there was any cobalt mine in the Congo that did not rely on "child labor" or "slavery," the Harvard visiting professor told him there were none.
"I've never seen one and I've been to almost all the major industrial cobalt mines" in the country, Kara said.
One reason for that is that the demand for cobalt is exceptionally high: "Cobalt is in every single lithium, rechargeable battery manufactured in the world today," Kara explained.
As a result, it’s difficult to think of a piece of technology that does not rely on cobalt to function, Kara said. "Every smartphone, every tablet, every laptop and crucially, every electric vehicle" needs the mineral....................
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