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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Exactly!!!!
Is child labour used in artisanal cobalt mining an EV is worse than oil and gas problem or a global issue that isn't specific to EV battery production?
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C'mon now.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chil...t=gws-wiz-serp
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https://www.google.com/search?q=chil...t=gws-wiz-serp
Even the google links when searching "child labour oil and gas" largely refute your claim. Unicef even acknowledges it in this report of oil and gas impact on children
https://media.business-humanrights.o...r_19012015.pdf
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The use of child labour in large-scale industrial oil and gas activity is relatively rare and usually confined
to the supply chain – and the public commitments that oil and gas companies make to the management
of child labour creates a sense that this is the only child-related agenda in the oil and gas sector.
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Child labour on the other hand is most definitely a systemic problem in mining, and very prominent in cobalt and lithium mining. So much so that The US department of labour specifically targets it.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/re...ms_per_page=10
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/re...-ion-batteries
You chose quite literally the sole example available via a focused search, Syria, which employs state-sponsored child labour, to try to make a fallacious (and frankly irresponsible) argument about the oil and gas industry as a whole that simply isn't true.