Congo Cobalt Mining Exposes Green Energy Amorality
Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.
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Green energy is anything but green and the mining taking place in the Congo to enable it illustrates the amorality of the entire climate cult and its grifters.
I don’t watch or listen to Joe Rogan much because I don’t care for his gratuitous unnecessary use of filthy language (a bad habit of our declining civilization), but the fellow does attract some outstanding guests and is a superb interviewer. I believe he has a genuine deep-seated desire to learn the truth of things. His recent interview of Siddharth Kara, the author of a new book titled “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives,” which I intend to purchase, is a case in point. It exposes the rot and the amorality of the green energy fad, the climate cult and the grifters attached to the cause.
Arriving to mine cobalt for EV, mobile phone and laptop batteries in the Congo.
Amorality is the proper term in this instance because we’re seeing a complete lack of morals in the mindless promotion of “clean” and “green” energy schemes by those seeking money and power through all grifting surrounding these schemes. It’s not that the grifters intend evil or that their enablers (often you and me) wish for bad things to happen but that eyes have been closed to any question of the moral issues involved.
The I-Phone and other Apple products I use provide the most obvious example. I use these products because they serve my interests in items that operate intuitively and don’t require a degree in technical writing for nerds to use. Yet, Apple seems to have employed the slave labor of China’s persecuted Uyghurs to make the damn products. Therefore, if I don’t complain to Apple (which I do inadequately with this post), seek to restrain it from manufacturing in China or even stop using its products I’m partially at fault. I have acted in an amoral fashion.
This sort of self-criticism or examination of conscience, if you will, is precisely what is needed with respect to green energy because it isn’t green at all, but red with the blood of Congo children, as this interview shows us:
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Barnes & Noble provides a nice summary of the book and indicates how we are all implicated because 75% of cobalt comes from the Congo and it is essential element in mobile phone, laptop and EV batteries today:
“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.
Hear, hear! We are, indeed, all guilty to some extent. But, the mobile phone and laptop are not promoted as clean or green energy and EVs are. That is a crucial difference. As Siddharth Kara states in the Rogan interview, there is no one involved with the promotion of electric vehicles as green energy who does not know it is the children of the Congo who are, in very significant part, making those vehicles possible. It is amoral and we need to call it out at every opportunity.
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