CoolerOpposide [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agoChina has installed more electric vehicle charging stations in the past 73 days than the United States has installed in the past everhexbear.netimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1182
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minus-squareCarbonScored [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-211 months agoBased on my reading artisanal mining has overall significantly reduced from ~50% to ~10% between 2014 and 2020, and during this period, China was equally if not more responsible for dealing with artisanal miners. However, as of 2020, China simply does not deal with artisanal cobalt mining anymore (jokerfyingly presented as as “bad chinese company bows to pressure and ruins peoples livelihoods (while western ones still use child miners)”). As of 2023 in fact, it looks like the West is leaning back into the direction of artisanal miners and child labour. So in China’s defence, it does look like their mining operations are significantly more ethical. Though there’s still an argument for an exploitative nature of the deal, it looks like a better operation than first appeared.
minus-squareCascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThanks, I’ll save these links. I guess as ever it’s more nuanced but at least China seems like a positive influence. I hadn’t seen that last one though - “Is it time to embrace Congo’s artisanal cobalt miners?” fucking hell
Based on my reading artisanal mining has overall significantly reduced from ~50% to ~10% between 2014 and 2020, and during this period, China was equally if not more responsible for dealing with artisanal miners.
However, as of 2020, China simply does not deal with artisanal cobalt mining anymore (jokerfyingly presented as as “bad chinese company bows to pressure and ruins peoples livelihoods (while western ones still use child miners)”).
As of 2023 in fact, it looks like the West is leaning back into the direction of artisanal miners and child labour.
So in China’s defence, it does look like their mining operations are significantly more ethical. Though there’s still an argument for an exploitative nature of the deal, it looks like a better operation than first appeared.
Thanks, I’ll save these links. I guess as ever it’s more nuanced but at least China seems like a positive influence.
I hadn’t seen that last one though - “Is it time to embrace Congo’s artisanal cobalt miners?” fucking hell