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The Jordan Harbinger Show

807: Siddharth Kara | How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Siddharth Kara joins us to discuss how miners in the Congo die daily to supply cobalt for lithium-ion batteries that power our phones, laptops, and cars.

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0:00.0

Special thanks to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:04.4

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:07.3

When tech and EV companies at the top of the chain say,

0:09.9

no, we buy our cobalt from ABC industrial company and there's no child labor involved.

0:16.0

It's either dealing in utter falsehood or a demonstration that they are completely ignorant

0:22.0

of the truth on the ground. Either way, there is child labor, forced labor, hazardous labor

0:28.2

for cobalt feeding into the formal supply chain every single day.

0:35.8

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