EAN: 9781250284303

COBALT RED - SIDDHARTH KARA GEBUNDEN

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller  longlisted for the Financial
Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human
rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect
us all.Cobalt Red is the searing  first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and
environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining  as told through the
testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has
traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living  working 
and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices  Kara investigated
militia-controlled mining areas  traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit
to consumer-facing tech giants  and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense
suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion
rechargeable battery made today  the batteries that power our smartphones  tablets  laptops 
and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo
often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot
conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe
in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book  Kara argues that we must all care about what is
happening in the Congo-because we are all implicated.

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