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Pulitzer Prize finalist (2024) and NY Times Bestselling Author of "Cobalt Red: How The Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives” IG: siddharth.kara

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As automakers gather at #CES2023 to proudly announce their newest models of EVs, I wonder how much time they will spend discussing that this is the kind of hellscape from which the cobalt in their batteries is mined? @StMartinsPress @Freedom_Fund @CNNFreedom
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A still from the video I shared with ⁦⁦ @joerogan ⁩ … This is an industrial mine in the DRC … This is where the cobalt in our gadgets and cars comes from … According to all their “Audits” and “Impact Reports”, this does not exist.
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When @joerogan graciously invited me to be on his podcast, I wasn't sure what to expect. He posted our conversation in episode #1914 one week ago, and millions of people have since learned about the new horror in the Congo - cobalt mining. Change is inevitable.
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#1914 - Thank you ⁦ @joerogan ⁩ for providing a global platform for this crucial story about the unconscionable conditions of cobalt mining in the Congo. ⁦ @StMartinsPress ⁩
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#1914 - Siddharth Kara

Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Siddharth Kara is an author and expert on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and child labor. Look for his new book, "Cobalt...

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Here is one of the thousands of children gathering a sack of THEIR cobalt … and he is on an industrial mining concession. According to their “Audits” and “Impact Reports” this does not exist.
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There are thousands of babies in the DRC strapped to their mother's backs, inhaling toxic cobalt dust all day. This teenager is putting her infant for a nap in a cardboard box, so she can clamber into a trench to scavenge for the cobalt that powers our lives.
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Today I held a copy of “Cobalt Red” in my hand for the first time. The moment summoned a flood of emotions back to my first trip to the Congo in 2018. As the world hears the testimonies of the Congolese people, I pray we will see fit to end to this disgraceful scramble for loot.
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When car companies advertise their shiny new EVs during the #superbowl today, none of them will mention the destroyed environment and people of the DR Congo at the bottom of their cobalt supply chains. #cobaltred
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Many industrial mines in the DRC have processing plants that use massive amounts of sulphuric acid to leach copper and cobalt from ore, which produces a highly toxic, mustard colored gas cloud that floats over everything: land, rivers, animals, villages...and children like these.
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Another day, another sack of cobalt gathered by a child in the Congo in hazardous conditions…earning him about a dollar, which likely means the difference between eating or not. This the logic of a global economy whose kings of industry sacrifice human dignity for profit.
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Trucks in the DRC loaded with cobalt, copper, nickel, lithium, tin, manganese, and other EV battery metals line up for 20 miles to cross the border. They can take a week to cross, running at idle and polluting the environment. @StMartinsPress Green for us, not for them.
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@kevinbacon @Hyundai Hi Kevin, I’ve been a fan since Footloose. Perhaps you could lend your voice equally to the human rights and environmental catastrophe taking place at the other end of those EV supply chains. #cobaltred
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This is the face of an artisanal miner in the DRC who carries on his shoulders the intolerable weight of 30kg of cobalt, and the world's rechargeable lives. @StMartinsPress @TheJRECompanion @CNNFreedom
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@MikeHudema And here is the line of pollution spewing cargo trucks lined up for a week or more at the border in the Congo bringing California its precious EV battery metals. Green for CA. Apocalypse for the Congo.
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Immense gratitude to @joerogan and @rustyrockets for their gracious words about my research into cobalt mining in the Congo. I have described these horrors a hundred different ways, but you encapsulated it perfectly with a single word - "apocalypse". #cobaltred
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Example of one of the numerous artisanal mining villages I documented for "Cobalt Red." No electricity, no sanitation, closest school and medical clinic 9km away. Shouldn't tech and EV companies do more to support the communities in the DRC that supply their cobalt?
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About 3000 people, including hundreds of children, scrounge for cobalt in this broad artisanal mining zone just outside an industrial mining concession (in background). All the artisanal cobalt is sold via intermediaries to industrial mines. There is no "clean cobalt" here.
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Joe Rogan’s Podcast Shows Horrifying Slave Conditions Used To Mine Materials Needed For Electric Cars | The Daily Wire ⁦ @StMartinsPress ⁩
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Everyday countless children in the DRC stand in toxic pools of water to sieve dirt and rubble from cobalt pebbles, one sack of which will earn them around a dollar per day from the traders who sell the cobalt to big mining companies. @StMartinsPress @TheJRECompanion @CNNFreedom
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@catturd2 They certainly aren’t good for the DR Congo! @StMartinsPress @joeroganhq
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I am confident it would require < 0.5% the price of all rechargeable devices and EVs sold annually to eliminate almost all indecent working conditions suffered by artisanal cobalt miners in the DRC. Tech and EV co's could easily absorb these costs. Why don't they?
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I am going to go out on a limb and say there will be at least 6 different EV commercials during the #SuperBowl tomorrow, and not one of them will mention the enormous violence committed against the people and environment of the Congo to get cobalt into their batteries. #cobaltred
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I am deeply honored and grateful that "Cobalt Red" is on the @nytimes list of 10 Books to Watch for in Jan 2023. The voices of the Congolese people WILL be heard. @StMartinsPress
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10 New Books Coming in January (Published 2022)

Watch for a follow-up to Leigh Bardugo’s “Ninth House” and a damning investigation of cobalt mining. Oh, maybe you’ve heard about a new memoir coming from Prince Harry?

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Joe Rogan podcast guest explains 'heart-wrenching' source of electric vehicle, iPhone batteries in viral video | Fox News
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A Harvard visiting professor exposed the “appalling” cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience" that went viral.

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For those of you who have started reading "Cobalt Red" - this is what those tunnels in Kasulo look like. #cobaltred
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Artisanal miners dig for cobalt inside most industrial mines in the DRC, such as this one. It's plain as day for anyone to see. As I describe in "Cobalt Red," most of this cobalt is sold via intermediaries back to the industrial mine, and from there into our gadgets and EVs.
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Herein the truth of our rechargeable lives. Children degraded. Earth destroyed. All for cobalt. We have been made unwitting participants in this injustice by a global economic order that did not deem the people of the Congo worthy of basic dignity. It is time for change.
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And everyone listening should know this - I will not stop pushing until this Congo injustice is set right.
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@ZubyMusic Thank you for helping to spread the word!
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Even if all cobalt usage in gadgets and cars stopped tomorrow, this does NOT repair the last 12 yrs of misery suffered by the Congolese people. Also, tech and EV co’s would still buy the copper and nickel contained in the same ore body as the cobalt. Problem NOT solved.
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My deepest gratitude to all the readers of "Cobalt Red" who made the book a @nytimes Bestseller in its first week of release. #cobaltred
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Every day, tens of thousands of Congolese men and teenage boys scrounge for cobalt deep inside hazardous tunnels. They spend up to 18 hours crouched in narrow shafts without room to sit upright, inhaling toxic particulates, and filled with dread that at any moment, the tunnel…
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Let’s be clear - just because LFP batteries do not contain cobalt, that does not mean the abuses disappear. Numerous lithium mines are being gouged into Africa as we speak, including in the DRC. Conditions are likely to be just as horrible as cobalt mining.
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I am grateful to the @nytimes for a very thoughtful Book Review of "Cobalt Red" @StMartinsPress
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How Is Your Phone Powered? Problematically. (Published 2023)

Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering.

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“Cobalt Red” hasn’t even been released yet, and cobalt stakeholders are already prepping their counter-narratives intended to mislead consumers that conditions in the DRC aren’t so bad. Don’t be fooled. Hear the testimonies of the Congolese people, then decide for yourselves.
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A lot of misinformation about cobalt, so let's get one thing straight: Cobalt use for oil and gas refining = 4% of cobalt consumption, declining share, can be recycled. Cobalt use for rechargeable batteries = 66% of cobalt consumption + growing share. This is the problem.
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Another shot of the grim wasteland at the other end of our rechargeable lives. You will see no dignity or sustainability here...only a poverty-driven scramble for cobalt, leaving behind the utter ruin of people and earth. @StMartinsPress @CNNFreedom @Freedom_Fund @rightsbeacon
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For those in doubt, I am not criticizing EVs. On the contrary, EVs are critical for the achievement of climate sustainability goals. I am, however, criticizing all EV and consumer-facing tech companies that claim on paper that their cobalt supply chains are clean... (1/2)
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Happy New Year. I wish you all the very best for 2023. May our many differences - be it class, caste, gender, ideology, religion, or race - fade in significance as compared to the great primacy of our shared humanity.
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@LegionHoops Thank you, @KyrieIrving , for lending your voice to this appalling invasion of the human rights of the children of the Congo who scrounge for the cobalt that powers our lives. The companies making fortunes from this violence must be accountable. #cobaltred
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A message on the publication day of “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.” ⁦ @StMartinsPress ⁩ ⁦ @MacmillanUSA ⁩ #cobaltred
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Children. Congo. Cobalt. Uniformed employee of major cobalt mining company in DRC arranging to purchase their production. Said cobalt feeds into batteries of major tech and EV companies. This is so-called audited and untainted supply. Truth is on the ground. #cobaltred
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To all who are asking what individuals can do - keep spreading awareness of the plight of the Congolese people who scrounge for our cobalt. Only then will there be sufficient outcry for companies to take responsibility for conditions at the bottom of their cobalt supply chains.
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@MatthewDR @elonmusk Permit me a moment to point out how cynical and nonsensical today’s “web cam” solution is. It’s pure PR. Mining concessions can be as big as small towns. Are we talking 10,000 web cams to cover each mine? Do web cams replant the millions of trees destroyed by cobalt mines?…
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Still waiting for a single consumer-facing tech or EV company to reach out and express a desire to genuinely work on solutions. Aren’t the people digging their cobalt in the Congo worth it? #cobaltred
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Here’s a look at my broader plan to address the immense violence and injustice against the people and environment of the DR Congo caused by cobalt mining: (1/6)
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Please see here some of my photos from the field during research on cobalt mining in the DRC: "Harrowing images of cobalt mines in Congo where kids dig for $2-a-day" @MailOnline @StMartinsPress #cobaltred
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Harrowing images of cobalt mines in Congo where kids dig for $2-a-day

A new series of images taken from inside cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo raise uncomfortable questions for American tech companies claiming to be 'clean'.

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A reader of “Cobalt Red” shared with me this powerful image he created. It echoes the schematic of the Brookes Slave Ship uncovered by the great abolitionist Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson turned the image into a poster and distributed it across England. The brutal geometry of the…
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This is not too far from the point at which Henry Morton Stanley began his epic journey to trace the Congo River, a journey that would unleash incalculable torment upon the people of the Congo for generations, up to and including today’s ignoble scramble for cobalt.
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One month from today, "Cobalt Red" will be released, and the world will finally learn the deepest and most disturbing truths about cobalt mining in the DR Congo, as revealed through the voices of the Congolese people themselves. @StMartinsPress
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Cobalt Red

The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Bus...

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'Cobalt Red' describes the 'horror show' of mining the element in the DRC : Goats and Soda : NPR ⁦ @StMartinsPress ⁩ #cobaltred
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“Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo” #cobaltred
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Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo

Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish...

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The point is - all mineral supply chains linked to rechargeable batteries must be cleansed of labor abuses and environmental destruction. Cobalt is the most extreme case because almost 75% of global supply comes from a small patch of utterly ruined earth in the DRC.
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When in fact nothing could be further from the truth. Is it too much to ask that these companies send teams to the Congo to do the actual work of treating their cobalt miners with dignity, and to ensure the environment of the Congo is not treated like a toxic dumping ground?(2/2)
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For Your Phone and EV, a Cobalt Supply Chain to a Hell on Earth #cobaltred
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For Your Phone and EV, a Cobalt Supply Chain to a Hell on Earth

The race for high-tech metals has sparked a cobalt boom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has come at a steep human cost. In an e360 interview, author Siddharth Kara talks about the...

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Please keep an eye out for my new book, "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives," to be published by St Martin's Press in Jan, 2023: . It is by far the most important book I have yet written. @StMartinsPress @MacmillanUSA
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Cobalt Red - Macmillan
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More misinformation about cobalt to clarify: More than 80% of EVs on road today have batteries with cobalt. Transition in SOME models to LFP batteries does NOT remedy past 12+ years of harms of cobalt mining! Most EVs will still use cobalt for many years to come.
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IMPORTANT: I am not on any other social media sites other than Twitter. I understand people are impersonating me on Instagram and other sites soliciting donations. This is not me. I will never ask anyone for a penny. Please don’t send anyone any of your hard earned money!
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@StephenKing No doubt it is a fine car, but can we please also talk about the horrific human rights and environmental violence associated with EV batteries?
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As automakers gather at #CES2023 to proudly announce their newest models of EVs, I wonder how much time they will spend discussing that this is the kind of hellscape from which the cobalt in their batteries is mined? @StMartinsPress @Freedom_Fund @CNNFreedom
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@Skaffen00 You don’t and shouldn’t have to pay more for your phone, or any other gadget or EV. The companies should be the ones investing in the bottom of their supply chains, and accepting the microscopically reduced profit for doing so.
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A snippet of my immensely important conversation about cobalt mining in the DRC with @joerogan
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The Disturbing Reality of Cobalt Mining for Rechargeable Batteries

Taken from JRE #1914 w/Siddharth Kara:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZBdeZLitzqNPBbvv9QIEz?si=341d36bd1fa04f79

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I am deeply humbled by this review in ⁦ @WSJ ⁩, which perfectly captures the spirit of “Cobalt Red” ⁦ @StMartinsPress ⁩ #cobaltred
‘Cobalt Red’ Review: The Human Price of Cobalt

‘Artisanal mining’ is a euphemism, meant to disguise the exploitation of Congolese laborers that makes our battery-powered lives possible.

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Thank you @nytimes for once again shining a light on this pressing human rights and environmental tragedy. #cobaltred "He Needed a Big Megaphone, So He Wrote a Best Seller"
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He Needed a Big Megaphone, So He Wrote a Best Seller (Published 2023)

Siddharth Kara witnessed “utterly subhuman degradation” in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Then he wrote about it.

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The Dark Side Of The Cobalt Supply Chain @richardquest @CNNFreedom @StMartinsPress #cobaltred
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After receiving numerous emails of spoof accounts of me on Instagram, I have set up an account under the username: siddharth.kara. I have posted one of the videos I posted on Twitter so that you know it is me. See you over at IG as well!
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The human cost of cobalt, the element that powers our devices | The Current with Matt Galloway | Live Radio | CBC #cobaltred
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The human cost of cobalt, the element that powers our devices | The Current with Matt Galloway |...

The push to electrify our vehicles is driving a scramble for cobalt, which is almost exclusively mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We talk to Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the...

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@tim_cook Even if this is achieved (consider me skeptical), it does NOTHING to repair 15 years of destruction of the people and environment of the DR Congo for cobalt. This is the colonial mentality - pillage the people and resources of the global south, and leave behind an apocalypse…
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We mustn't let this issue fade from mainstream attention. That's what they are counting on. Keep the pressure growing, and we can achieve lasting change for the people in the DR Congo. #cobaltred
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The horrible truth they do not want the world to see. #cobaltred
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Brutal clip reveals dark truth we can‘t ignore

A video of workers scrambling to save men trapped inside a collapsing African mine has shed light on the true cost of hi-tech devices we take for granted.

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Terrific article about cobalt mining in the DRC from @whoisjoshwilson on @Forbes : @KyrieIrving @joerogan #cobaltred
Entertainment Industry Becomes More Vocal About The Cobalt Situation In The Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has more cobalt than the rest of the world combined. As the situation around cobalt mining, and the civil war in the country, worsens the entertainment...

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Honored to share that “Cobalt Red” is now available in Polish. As the world hears the voices of the Congolese people, change is inevitable.
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@MeghanMcCain @joerogan I couldn’t agree more and welcome your support!
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@JamesMelville Thank you for amplifying this urgent catastrophe! I encourage anyone interested to read "Cobalt Red" to learn the full horror of cobalt mining in the DRC. The more people who know the truth, the more effective our future efforts to address these injustices will be. #cobaltred
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@scienceisstrat1 @Noahpinion @JesseJenkins @dwallacewells @ramez You forgot to mention perhaps the most important part of the story:
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#1914 - Siddharth Kara

Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Siddharth Kara is an author and expert on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and child labor. Look for his new book, "Cobalt...

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Greetings from Africa to start 2024. The journey to the truth continues.
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From King Leopold II To Big Tech: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery | KPFA #cobaltred
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From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day...

Guest: Siddharth Kara is Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.  He is the author of Cobalt...

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Cobalt Red: The Bloody Truth Behind Congolese Cobalt Mining | by Johnny P | Jul, 2023 | Medium
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Cobalt Red: The Bloody Truth Behind Congolese Cobalt Mining - PolisPandit

Cobalt Red reveals the bloody and dark side of cobalt mining in the Congo, and how we're all responsible for it.

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Terrific video about #Cobalt mining in the DR Congo courtesy of @change4balance #cobaltred
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Please read an excerpt from “Cobalt Red” published by @Newsweek :
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Shocking truths behind smartphone and EV batteries: children mining cobalt

"The eight individuals in the group produced on average three sacks of washed heterogenite ore per day...an income of roughly $1.05 per team member per day."

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We flood the world with truth, and people of conscience will set things right. They always have, and they always will. (6/6)
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I applaud Rep Chris Smith (R-NJ) for his courage and moral leadership in introducing HR 4443 to ban the import of goods made with cobalt or lithium mined in the DR Congo. If passed, this law could help pressure tech and EV companies to take responsibility…
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'Cobalt Red': The price Africans pay so we can have better batteries - Washington Times
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‘Cobalt Red’: The price Africans pay so we can have better

Electric vehicles are marvelous in many ways, but if you think they're "green and clean," you haven't done your homework. Not to worry: Siddharth Kara has done it for you.

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Opinion: How our green transition and hunger for battery metals devastate Africa and the Congo - The Globe and Mail
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Opinion: How our green transition and hunger for battery metals devastate Africa and the Congo

As governments like Canada’s push toward net-zero carbon emissions, untold devastation is wreaked upon the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Thank you ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ for including “Cobalt Red” on this list. The voices of the Congolese people continue to be heard. #cobaltred “9 New Books We Recommend This Week” - The New York Times
9 New Books We Recommend This Week (Published 2023)

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Cobalt Red is now available in Australia. Here’s a local review. As the wave of truth continues to spread around the world, change is inevitable.
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

We’re all complicit. Anybody who uses a laptop, mobile phone, electric vehicle (EV) or tablet has purchased a product that contains cobalt, a rare-earth element. It’s largely unknown to the general

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@SharaVirlan Keep spreading awareness, until the companies that sell us our rechargeable devices and cars are compelled to turn their eyes away from their quarterly profit statements, and look directly into the suffering taking place at the bottom of their cobalt supply chains.
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@TheJRECompanion @elonmusk @Samsung @Apple @Google @joerogan I’m on standby…
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@TheEconomist This article is wrong in so many ways, I can only assume it was written by a bot…or someone with an agenda to diffuse attention from the rapine of the people and environment of the Congo for Cobalt. #cobaltred
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@Erici7i Thank you for your very kind words
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I can’t say I feel for a minute that I belong in this trio with Hochschild and Conrad, but as long as Amazon thinks so, I’ll take it. What an honor!
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I am proud to announce that “Cobalt Red” is now available for sale in India. Interested readers can pick up a copy at these bookstores: Mumbai 1. Kitab Khana 2. Granth Bookstores 3. Title Waves 4. Crossword Kemps Corner and Inorbit store New Delhi 1. Bahri sons 2. Om…
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More of my conversation about cobalt mining in the Congo:
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Joe Rogan: SLAVERY & Child Labor FUELS OUR TECH | Cobalt Mining

FREE Alpha Brain Trial: https://onnit.sjv.io/c/3881023/347302/5155Onnit Affiliated.Joe Rogan & Siddharth Kara discuss the child labor, slavery, and atrocitie...

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Big tech and EV manufacturers are not doing enough:
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With these projects, there will be no room left for denial or avoidance of the truth: tech and EV companies reap immense profits by selling products that largely rely on cobalt mined in horrific conditions in the DRC, and they are not doing enough to address that injustice. (5/6)
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@BridgetPhetasy Thank you for listening, and please keep spreading awareness of this injustice. People can hear directly from the voices of the Congolese people in my book, "Cobalt Red". The more we flood the world with their truth, the sooner these injustices will be addressed. #cobaltred
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1. My book, “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives” will be the first book to bring the voices of the Congolese people to a world that cannot function without their suffering (Jan 31). (2/6)
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Cobalt Red

The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Bus...

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It is a triumph for the people of the DR Congo and those who toil at the bottom of global cobalt supply chains for “Cobalt Red” to be included on the Long List for the @ftlive Business Book of the Year 2023 @StMartinsPress #bbya23
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I found this interview with @ABCaustralia to be very engaging. #cobaltred "The bloody truth about cobalt mining in the Congo and how it powers our lives"
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The bloody truth about cobalt mining in the Congo and how it powers our lives - ABC listen

We all rely on cobalt - it powers our smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles. But according to Siddharth Kara, there's 'no such thing as a clean supply chain of cobalt'. He reveals the shocking...

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A snippet from the beginning of chapter 3 of the audiobook of "Cobalt Red," courtesy of @MacmillanAudio @StMartinsPress #cobaltred
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