332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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What's the Difference Between Cobalt and the 1990s Debates?
The Congo holds 70% of the world's cobalt, which is needed to make electric vehicles and cell phones. This isn't like in 1990s debates over sweatshot labor or sweat shop labor where there was a debate about who had cheapest labor. You can't just say, well, let's shift our garment factory from this place to that place. No, we have to fix the problem on the ground in the Congo.
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