How ‘modern slavery’ in the Congo is powering the rechargeable battery economy
Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be symbols of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are often powered by cobalt mined by workers working in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kara, a fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Kennedy School, …
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