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I suppose the thing with EVs and iPhones is that the contrast is right there, you can draw a pretty solid line between extremely poor and unfortunate people ext
by mycologos 5y ago
I suppose the thing with EVs and iPhones is that the contrast is right there, you can draw a pretty solid line between extremely poor and unfortunate people extracting raw materials and extremely wealthy using the finished product. It's also a link that, I think, a lot of people still aren't quite aware of. There's not a Blood Diamond for cobalt, as far as I know.
- divbzero 5y agoYes, and many of the target readers are emotionally connected in that they are customers who use the finished product.
- mc32 5y agoA lot, more than you think, of poor people in poor countries also own smartphones whose manufacture is facilitated by Coltan extraction. So, to you, if you are wealthy, you see it as extreme, but in reality the extreme does not exist for a very large proportion of the population.