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2021-05-26 Africa Subsaharan

Are children dying like dogs in effort to build better batteries?

[Deseret] “Our children are dying like dogs.”

That is the sorrowful statement of one Congolese mother whose son and cousin died while working the cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

She and other parents like her are part of a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C., in 2019 seeking to hold Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Tesla accountable for what they allege is profiting off the misery of child labor in their quest for cobalt.

“Cobalt is a key component of every rechargeable lithium-ion battery in all of the gadgets made by defendants and all other tech and electric car companies in the world that has brought on the latest wave of cruel exploitation fueled by greed, corruption and indifference to a population of powerless, starving Congolese people,” the suit reads.
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Posted by badanov 2021-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Oh, look, it's Betteridge's Law of Headlines:
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Leaving aside the question of whether we should make batteries from children, I do give them style points for alliteration. "Dying like dogs" and "build better batteries" is good. Maybe go for a trifecta by appending "so we can toodle about in Teslas".

Posted by SteveS 2021-05-26 14:31|| 2021-05-26 14:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Oooh...ouch! My thanks for today’s learning, SteveS.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-26 16:57|| 2021-05-26 16:57|| Front Page Top

#3 That
and
Rat Scalps.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-26 17:39|| 2021-05-26 17:39|| Front Page Top

#4 "Withering [W]ike Wakandans"?

Posted by Sheba B. Hayes5638 2021-05-26 18:53|| 2021-05-26 18:53|| Front Page Top

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