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We won’t stop having slave children mine cobalt if we don’t stop making EVs that need it.
by unnamed76ri 4y ago
We won’t stop having slave children mine cobalt if we don’t stop making EVs that need it.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoBoth of Tesla's future chemistries (high nickel cathode, LFP) don't use cobalt.
- jodrellblank 4y agoWhy can't it be mined by adults?
- peteradio 4y agoI don't know much about slaving, but presumably an adult is able to mount a more vigorous defense against would be slavers.
- jodrellblank 4y agoWhy does Cobalt need to be mined by slaves when other things don't? In the context you cannot both (burn fossil fuels) and (stop burning fossil fuels). You can mine things without child slave labour, so you can both (stop child slave labour) and (have EVs).
- unethical_ban 4y agoSomething tells me you don't actually give a shit about slave children but have a chip on your shoulder about EVs.
- unnamed76ri 4y agoSomething tells me you don’t know me. I have a chip on my shoulder about people being treated as subhuman. I have a chip on my shoulder about government policy that harms people in the name of protecting them.
- unethical_ban 4y agoI'll judge a book by its excerpts. You don't like government, period. That's fine. What I don't like is dressing up your disdain for the union of people (government) by concern-trolling people into issues with supply chains for critical resources. If you want to have a discussion about ethical transportation, let's do it. Let's talk about the harms of fossil fuels, the human toll of car culture and suburban sprawl, the ethics of destroying the planet for future generations for cheap goods now, the issues of exploited labor in energy markets (including lithium and cobalt battery production) and more. I agree exploited labor is bad. We should, as a society and via our government, do what is possible to not rely on exploited/slave labor for anything. Is your assertion that, if the price of moving away from provably catastrophic activity like consuming fossil fuels is that parts of the supply chain rely on slave labor in other countries, we should not use it in any way?