{"id":1785997,"date":"2022-12-24T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T21:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785997"},"modified":"2022-12-24T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T21:48:58","slug":"joe-rogans-podcast-shows-horrifying-slave-conditions-used-to-mine-materials-needed-for-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogans-podcast-shows-horrifying-slave-conditions-used-to-mine-materials-needed-for-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan\u2019s Podcast Shows Horrifying Slave Conditions Used To Mine Materials Needed For Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-rogans-podcast-shows-horrifying-slave-conditions-used-to-mine-materials-needed-for-electric-cars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Podcast giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-rogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rogan<\/a> used his show this week to shine a light on some of the horrifying slave conditions that are used to mine the raw materials used to make electric car batteries and batteries for other devices like cell phones and laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan brought on activist Siddharth Kara to talk about what happens at these mines in Africa, specifically in the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the whole history of slavery, I mean, going back centuries, never, never in human history, has there been more suffering that generated more profit, and was linked to the lives of more people around the world, ever, ever in history than what\u2019s happening in the Congo right now,\u201d Kara said. \u201cAnd the reason I say that is this: the cobalt that\u2019s being mined in the Congo is in every single lithium ion rechargeable battery manufactured in the world today, every smartphone, every tablet, every laptop, and crucially, every electric vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kara noted that mining conditions in the country are so bad that people are forced at gunpoint to dig for these materials by hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCobalt really took off about 10-12 years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s in another part of the country in the mining provinces in the southeast of the Congo. And cobalt took off because it started to be used in lithium ion batteries to maximize their charge and stability. And it just so happens that the Congo, just as it was sitting on more than half the world\u2019s reserves of coltan and of course, a lot of gold and diamonds and other things, is sitting on more cobalt than the rest of the planet combined. And it\u2019s in a small little patch of the Congo, southeastern corner \u2014 a part that used to be called Katanga, and before anybody knew what was happening, Chinese government, Chinese mining companies took control of almost all the big mines, and the local population has been displaced, is under duress, and they dig in absolutely subhuman, gut-wrenching conditions for $1 a day, feeding cobalt up the supply chain into all the phones, all the tablets, and especially electric cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>SIDDHARTH KARA, ACTIVIST: We can dig into this in more depth. Throughout the whole history of slavery, I mean, going back centuries, never, never in human history, has there been more suffering that generated more profit, and was linked to the lives of more people around the world, ever, ever in history than what\u2019s happening in the Congo right now. And the reason I say that is this: the cobalt that\u2019s being mined in the Congo is in every single lithium ion rechargeable battery manufactured in the world today, every smartphone, every tablet, every laptop, and crucially, every electric vehicle. So you and I, we can\u2019t function on a day-to-day basis without cobalt, and three fourths of the supply is coming out of the Congo. And it\u2019s being mined in appalling, heart-wrenching, dangerous conditions. And so that\u2019s why people need to know because by and large, the world doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s happening in the Congo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOE ROGAN, HOST: It\u2019s something that people sort of know, peripherally, that, you know, they call them conflict minerals. And, you know, they know that they\u2019re coming from an area of the world that\u2019s very poor, but I don\u2019t think people are aware of how horrible it is. There has been, have been some documentaries that have been done, and they\u2019re all terrifying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KARA: Yeah. So. So, conflict minerals was phase one. And that\u2019s actually not cobalt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ROGAN: What does it refer to, conflict minerals?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KARA: So, conflict minerals, also called the 3TG minerals are tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold. And those are in the eastern Congo. And that catastrophe started around the year 2000, late 1990s, 2000, shortly after the Rwandan genocide. The militias moved in and Eastern Congo is sitting on some of the largest reserves in the world of those 3TG minerals, especially tantalum. And those are all used in microprocessors. And you can think back to, you know, around the year 2000. Mobile phones first started coming out and gaining traction. I still remember my little StarTAC flip phone that I had from Motorola, you remember that? And all that supply was coming out of Eastern Congo, militias and warlords were forcing the local population at gunpoint, machete point, to dig this stuff out. And it was flowing up into the formal supply chain into mostly those first generation cell phones. And that became known as conflict minerals. Cobalt started later. Cobalt really took off about 10-12 years ago. And it\u2019s in another part of the country in the mining provinces in the southeast of the Congo. And cobalt took off because it started to be used in lithium ion batteries to maximize their charge and stability. And it just so happens that the Congo, just as<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast giant Joe Rogan used his show this week to shine a light on some of the horrifying slave conditions that are used to mine the raw materials used to make electric car batteries and batteries for other devices like cell phones and laptops. 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