Are there enough children in Congo to supply minerals for all Gavin and Joe’s electric cars?
As an longtime resident of Africa, and a student of African history, this isn’t the first time the Congo was exploited to benefit western technologies and tastes. When it was the hobby nation of King Leopold of Belgium, peoples’ hands were cut off…
Are there enough children in Congo to supply minerals for all Gavin and Joe’s electric cars?
As an longtime resident of Africa, and a student of African history, this isn’t the first time the Congo was exploited to benefit western technologies and tastes. When it was the hobby nation of King Leopold of Belgium, peoples’ hands were cut off and smoked to preserve them as evidence that local Belgium commissioners were employing adequate discipline to get maximum ivory and rubber production from the people in his district. To the world’s credit, an international outrage caused Leopold to hand the Congo over to the Belgian government, a very modest improvement.
It’s past time to crackdown on those who gain so much from those who have so little. Mr. Newson and Mr. Biden, are your electric dreams worth the life of even a single child? If so, then your lives are worth nothing.
I dunno. Maybe it was in some parallel dimension, but I was sure I heard they'd reduced auto emissions by 70-90% and that working from home, efficient delivery systems and streaming data and media had reduced demand for driving anyway. IOW, American automobile use is not a major factor in the end of the earth through carbon-caused warming.
Also that the carbon output of China/India was multiples of what the US puts out, much as we all want to hammer the US as the source of all evil.
Maybe my facts are off, but it seems a real misdirection of resources to switch from internal combustion engines to electric. Overstated benefit, understated externalities.
Are there enough children in Congo to supply minerals for all Gavin and Joe’s electric cars?
As an longtime resident of Africa, and a student of African history, this isn’t the first time the Congo was exploited to benefit western technologies and tastes. When it was the hobby nation of King Leopold of Belgium, peoples’ hands were cut off and smoked to preserve them as evidence that local Belgium commissioners were employing adequate discipline to get maximum ivory and rubber production from the people in his district. To the world’s credit, an international outrage caused Leopold to hand the Congo over to the Belgian government, a very modest improvement.
It’s past time to crackdown on those who gain so much from those who have so little. Mr. Newson and Mr. Biden, are your electric dreams worth the life of even a single child? If so, then your lives are worth nothing.
I dunno. Maybe it was in some parallel dimension, but I was sure I heard they'd reduced auto emissions by 70-90% and that working from home, efficient delivery systems and streaming data and media had reduced demand for driving anyway. IOW, American automobile use is not a major factor in the end of the earth through carbon-caused warming.
Also that the carbon output of China/India was multiples of what the US puts out, much as we all want to hammer the US as the source of all evil.
Maybe my facts are off, but it seems a real misdirection of resources to switch from internal combustion engines to electric. Overstated benefit, understated externalities.