
Irina Slav: Challenging the dominant narrative | Tom Nelson Pod #119
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The Cost of Mining for Green Materials in Africa
Sally Kohn: How do you square up the energy transition, which is supposed to benefit the poor and be just a song in the playlist? Kohn: You have a seasonal mining of cobalt in the Congo, which involves children and something very similar to slave labor. She sees this whole thing as a rube Goldberg machine that's expensive and unreliable at the same time.Kohn: The payoff, weather-wise and climate-wise is nothing at all.
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