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So I'll just leave this, it seems that people aren't aware of it: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284297/cobaltred https://us.macmillan.com/books/97812502

• mdp2021 3y ago
  Well, in this page a member shows that copper is used three time as much as cobalt in car batteries, and only a few days ago a documentary emerged about the copper extraction industry in Chile as a barricaded enclave causing high human costs. And even more recently the moves in the geopolitical game made the extraction of rare earths and its environmental (and social, etc.) costs a renewedly current topic. I am not sure that cobalt has a specially bad place in the whole context of extraction. (Apart from the non irrelevant fact that 'cobalt' comes from "kobold", because its ore is toxic.)
  • mdp2021 3y ago
    ...Someboy passed by, he had a working mouse and a broken keyboard. Elaborate.