The most insidious form of climate denial is no longer, "It's not happening," but the belief that incremental or tech solutions will solve this crisis. 1/6
Take electric vehicles. As demand grows, so does the need for cobalt; 70% of which is mined in the DRC. This has led to an explosion in human rights abuses; from child labour, to miners being buried alive when tunnels cave in. Workers make as little as £2 per day. 2/6
In the pursuit of shiny, silver bullet solutions, we are inadvertently doubling down on deeply-entrenched injustices. What if we zoomed out from the combustion engine and asked, "How do we redesign mobility?" 3/6
@cloverhogan Take internal combustion engine vehicles instead Clover👇 For some strange reason that page was redacted quite some time ago. Cc: @Exogynous
@cloverhogan But the new LFP batteries require no cobalt. So your ignoring the technology is already solving one of the issues and you surely already knew that, yet post this anyways, which is disingenuous and hurts your credibility
@cloverhogan Clover: I hate to break it to you, but there's more cobalt in your iphone than there is in my @Tesla. How can you be so passionate about this issue and not have done any research in the past 5 years?
@cloverhogan you have no clue, and definitely did not do your research ... do not believe everything you hear...
@cloverhogan This is not correct. LFP-based batteries dominate the EV market and do not require Cobalt or Nickel. EVs, in turn, reduce CO2 emissions dramatically. Plus, human rights and climate change should not be grouped together. Both require vastly different strategies.
@cloverhogan Lithium iron phosphate batteries use 0 cobalt.