332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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The Congo and the Legacy of King Leopold
The Congo was starting off at the bottom already. It is, I'm quite confident in saying the most heavily exploited place on earth. Leopold deployed this mercenary army that terrorized, killed and slaughtered the Congolese population to extract rubber sap. He walked away with billions of dollars. And now we have a new automobile Renaissance. Now we've got electric cars, which are important for us, from a sustainability climate standpoint. But they need cobalt in those batteries and guess who has all the cobalt once again, Congo.
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