An electric vehicle requires about six times as many minerals as a typical gas-guzzling car. Demand for critical minerals used in EVs and battery storage for renewable energy could grow tenfold by 2040, under a conservative estimate by the International Energy Agency. Scrambling to secure all those minerals without taking the time to make sure they’re mined humanely is where problems arise.
BHRRC’s latest report includes potential abuses linked to the mining of seven minerals: bauxite, cobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, nickel, and zinc. It’s been tracking those allegations since 2019 using publicly available records, including court documents and regulatory resources, as well as reports from other nongovernmental organizations and media outlets.
It found 91 more allegations in the past year alone, including a* “marked increase in labour rights violations and worker deaths”* that made up roughly 40 percent of the new allegations in 2023. Across its entire data set going back to 2010, labor violations including 53 work-related deaths make up a quarter of all allegations. For 2023, alleged attacks against human rights defenders, water pollution, and threats to water access are also glaring issues.
Mining for EV minerals is a human rights nightmare -- and the problem is growing.
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Seems ripe for a movie like blood diamond. Typical though isn't it? That entire faction is against anything life affirming or godly. If it's evil, synthetic, in opposition to natural law or God, they're all for it. Such douchebags. Total losers.
"COULD", "UNDER A CONSERVAIVE ESTIMATE", "MAKE SURE", "POTENTIAL ABUSES", "ALLEGATIONS", "NEW ALLIGATIONS", "ALLEGED ATTACKS" Dear Lord, give me strength.
That's a fair comment, Gertrude17, and in most situations I'd feel the same way. But I've seen enough material about how things are mined in the Congo and other third-world nations, including testimony and photographic evidence, to believe that most of the "allegations" and so on mentioned here lead back to genuine mistreatment, often of children.
Another TRUE environmental and humanitarian calamity that the eco-fuckwits put their fingers in their ears and go la la la about, along with countless billions of face shitrags going in landfill and the ocean for three straight years.
Just Stop Cunts.
All profits go to the top shareholders; while people suffer at the bottom! This is how it's always been! Good to see forums exposing this! Change is inevitable! Dark to light!