Tag: Africa
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Environmental green dreams are built on the backs of children and destroying the Congo
Read this short interview with Siddharth Kara over at The Free Press. Kara describes how cobalt is mined in the Congo. Child labor and environmental destruction is embedded in every piece of tech we use that has a battery. Congo has three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, as well as monopolies on coltan and tungsten—which are vital for batteries and circuits,…
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Renewable energy kills 700k people in sub-Saharan Africa every year
Ahhh the beauty of renewable fuel. It kills more people in sub-Saharan Africa than COVID-19 did in the U.S. and keeps half a billion Africans without electricity. the greenest continent is Africa. Nearly half of its energy comes from renewables, mostly wood, dung, and cardboard burned for cooking and heating—which kills about 700,000 people a year in…