Cobalt Red: The Bloody Truth Behind Congolese Cobalt Mining
This book will shame you for owning a smartphone
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6 min readJul 24, 2023
Do you own a smartphone? An electric car? If you buy anything with a lithium-ion battery, for which cobalt is an essential element, you’re complicit in the human and environmental destruction caused by cobalt mining in the Congo. Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red, explains why.
