The Green Revolution Is Fueled by 40k Trafficked Congo Child Slaves
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The Green Revolution Is Fueled by 40k Trafficked Congo Child Slaves
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#3Well, you're taking a singular vertical slice. How many plastic widgets and doodads in your house were made by an effective slave in China? What about clothes - from sweatshops in vietnam, bangladesh, etc.? We periodically see sensational stories where workers slip tragic notes into goods, but that's about it. On top of that, what about the animals we've hurt systematically? In the industrial revolution, we rendered millions of penguins into oil (400ml each). Now, industrial farms raise animals in horrific conditions and we are responsible for who knows what else for convenience and abundance?
Realistically the advanced world has been running on outsourced atrocity for decades, and we're all a bit complicit.
All that said, I would welcome additional supply chain scrutiny. I don't see a point in a consumer saving not very much money to enable child labor.
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#4More accurate headline: China employing slave labor in the Congo
There's plenty of battery material mined in other countries like Australia, Bolivia, the US, and Canada. Nothing intrinsic to anything "green" about it. This headline is good click bait though.
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#5Why should the consumer need to worry about supply chains?
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#6I'm sure it is happening, but I strongly suggest you seek mental help. If you believe that an entire political party, whose voters constitute more than half of the country, is a terrorist organization and whose voters must be hunted down, you have been severely radicalized and are disconnected from reality.
I do hope you get the help you clearly need.
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#7Well, you're taking a singular vertical slice. How many plastic widgets and doodads in your house were made by an effective slave in China? What about clothes - from sweatshops in vietnam, bangladesh, etc.? We periodically see sensational stories where workers slip tragic notes into goods, but that's about it. On top of that, what about the animals we've hurt systematically? In the industrial revolution, we rendered…
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Re: The Green Revolution Is Fueled by 40k Trafficked Congo Child Slaves
#8More accurate headline: China employing slave labor in the Congo There's plenty of battery material mined in other countries like Australia, Bolivia, the US, and Canada. Nothing intrinsic to anything "green" about it. This headline is good click bait though.
Please @dang change the title. "The green revolution" usually refers to the 1960-70s crop changes in India, not battery mineral mining.
Actual title says "Chinese Companies Allegedly Trafficking 40,000 Children In Congo, Forcing Them to Work In Hazardous Mines"
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#9If not working in a mine, these children will be working subsistence agriculture, which is equally as back-braking.
The underlying problem is an excess of manual labor in Africa, caused by excessive birth rates. Take fertility rates down to sub-replacement like they are in the rest of the world, and mining will just be automated.
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#10Well, you're taking a singular vertical slice. How many plastic widgets and doodads in your house were made by an effective slave in China? What about clothes - from sweatshops in vietnam, bangladesh, etc.? We periodically see sensational stories where workers slip tragic notes into goods, but that's about it. On top of that, what about the animals we've hurt systematically? In the industrial revolution, we rendered…
This comment is pure whataboutism, you laundry listed other problems to deflect from this one.
Noone here or in the article are saying those things aren't a problem, just this is as well.
Everytime a business (like Hyundai) or industry gets caught using child labor in their supply chain it's an issue and news worthy.
EDIT: now my comment is downvoted, and the article is flagged, ask yourself why can't this site's community accept news for certain topics?
EDIT2: loved this satire posted by another user here that covers this well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGinowoYu4 (use auto-translate captions)