Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by Siddharth Kara
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1250284309
- ISBN 13
- 9781250284303
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Cypress, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.
Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo—because we are all implicated.
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- Bookseller
- MURRAY GILL (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Cobalt Red
- Title
- Cobalt Red
- Author
- Siddharth Kara
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1250284309
- ISBN 13
- 9781250284303
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 288
- Size
- 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)
- Keywords
- Cobalt Red