COBALT MORE THREATENING THAN LITHIUM OR CARBON….?
THE PICTURE ABOVE SHOWS CHILDREN WORKING IN THE MINE
I was snoozing in my pleasant Zoo compartment last evening when I was rudely shocked into consciousness by the word ‘cobalt’. Michael Kroger was answering Paul Murray, on his show, about the cobalt environmental threat involved in electric cars. (I had thought, up until now, that it was only connected with nuclear bombs. Silly me!) Mr Kroger described the mining of cobalt as “the issue of the week that nobody was talking about”.
I was further jolted into full alertness by his mentioning that my birthplace, the Congo, is the source of more that 60% of the world’s cobalt production. Apparently, children as young as seven are used to extract this rare metal, vital for electric car battery production. It is also used in mobile phones and other electrical devices.
Bill Shorten and his merry men – and women – are unleashing an increase of potentially poisonous metals on an unsuspecting Australia, by promoting these “eco-friendly” electric cars. Cobalt, of course, is necessary for health but only in minute amounts.
How ironic that the Labor Party and their affiliated trade unions are also indirectly helping the exploitation of child labour in the Congo.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Cobalt Mining Chimpanzee Tycoon
2 thoughts on “COBALT MORE THREATENING THAN LITHIUM OR CARBON….?”
As far as Oz is concerned, the electric car promotion is fraught with problems at this point in time. The major obstacle is the tyranny of distance in this vast land; the extreme lack of infrastructure to re-charge these vehicles; the Greens push to criminalise coal and so make electricity production (and therefore re-charging these vehicles) very tenuous…and now the revelation that child labour is commonly used to mine the cobalt in The Congo!
I reckon this Labor policy should’ve been introduced more slowly while fully-electric vehicle infrastructure was established. In the meantime, hybrid vehicles would’ve been a more realistic, achievable goal towards “clean” cars for 2030.
I agree with Rowan Dean, at this stage the whole electric car thing is just a virtue signalling thought bubble from someone who rivals Nero (of burning Rome fame) for lunacy! There is a report out that 6 people in Melbourne plugged their Teslas into their home sockets at the same time to charge them, and the whole street fused out! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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