Blood Cobalt from the Congo | Siddharth Kara

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Dan Crenshaw

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4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A human rights and environmental catastrophe is happening right now, and it’s powering everything from smart phones to electric car batteries. Siddharth Kara joins us to expose how China is using modern day slaves, including children, to turn a small patch of the Congo into the world’s largest cobalt mining operation. Siddharth shares what he witnessed firsthand from years of undercover research inside the Congo, what life is like for the Congolese who are forced into these mining operations, how China came to totally dominate the world’s largest cobalt reserves, and what Americans can do to rectify this terrible situation.

Siddharth Kara is the author of “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.” He is a researcher and activist on modern slavery, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Follow him on Twitter at @siddharthkara.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	Because the number of Congress I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	Welcome back folks.
0:24.8	So you're back on hold these truths.
0:28.0	So I try to give you the truth as I see it good, bad, or ugly.
0:32.0	And today's episode is really one of those ugly ones.
0:34.8	But it's also very important.
0:36.0	Now, you need to know that every futuristic product that we have,
0:40.0	iPhones, electric cars, wind power,
0:42.0	all of these products have one thing in common.
0:44.0	They use cobalt for their batteries.
0:46.0	We say we want nice products,
0:48.0	but we don't always pay attention to the bigger picture.
0:50.0	Namely, where does all of this come from?
0:52.0	Critical minerals in cobalt in particular has been a hot button topic
0:56.0	for those who've been paying attention to the world of renewable energy.
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