332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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Introduction
Cobalt mining comes at an extreme cost, especially in the Congo. Exploring the story involves everything from supply chains to child and peasant labor. And as we discussed in the episode, just as sweatshop labor conditions were the cost of 1990s globalization, conditions in the Congo would define the 2020s.
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