Assault and Batteries: The DRC's Cobalt Crisis 

For 75 cents a day, a vital wage for a Congolese family in poverty, the Kamato Copper Mining Company paid 9-year-old John Doe to be a human mule, carrying 30-pound bags of cobalt for miles across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is Artisanal Mining, a rudimentary method of extracting ores using sticks, poles, holes, and bags. No machinery, no masks, no safety equipment, and no oversight. While working in early 2019, John fell into one of many hand-dug holes that pockmarked the torn landscape, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.
The lithium-ion batteries of the green revolution rely on cobalt, and over 70% of the global cobalt supply comes from the DRC. Your laptop, my phone, this camera, the entire technological ecosystem that has maintained business, education, communication, and speech through this pandemic: all of it has blood on its batteries. The culpability for these violations of human rights fall not only on the companies who condone or ignore them, but also their consumers. This video dives deep into the despicable practice Big Tech wants to keep underground.
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