Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

30 reviews

haleybird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book was incredibly thought provoking and informative, it’s just really dense and was personally hard for me to get through, but I’m glad I did! It’s difficult for me to keep up with so many acronyms, company names, so much data and stats, etc. 

Regardless of that, however, I do believe this is a book that anyone who uses rechargeable electronics or electric vehicles should read. The more people know about the atrocities that continue to be committed in the Congo for the sole purpose of exploiting their resources, the better. 

I will surely be much more conscious about my consumption of products that use rechargeable batteries moving forward, as I can’t in good conscience keep blindly consuming while children, women, and men in the Congo continue to die indiscriminately. We all need to do better!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, War, Blood, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Genocide, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Colonisation, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Trafficking

karyssa223's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence

zippz's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

Detailed and horrifyingly informative. It's an important read, but I wish a little more time was devoted to solutions and strategies to support the people of the Congo, rather than just failures to do so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Classism, Body horror, Violence, Child abuse, Police brutality, and Racism

melnao1's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

eye opening and daunting. It's crazy the parallels that this life offers. While we scroll on our endless timelines, there are children and adults working in their graves making less than $2 dollars a day to power those screens. The conditions of cobalt mining go way beyond inhumane/exploitation, it was pretty hard to read about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Death, and Colonisation

drought_season's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Colonisation, Misogyny, Slavery, Genocide, and War

Minor: Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault

moon_peach's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking but important to read to understand what we are contributing to. Unfortunately things are getting worse but if enough people learn about the real abuses happening we might be able to cause change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Child death, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

local_cryptid's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

This ended up being a little bit less active than I was hoping for. I wanted to get some guidance on what to do but was left over and over with the same devastating stories. After a certain point I would love to see some solutions so plans. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

devastating and so informative. free the congo. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Death, Slavery, Violence, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Child abuse, Colonisation, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Trafficking

ecn's review against another edition

5.0

Mandatory reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body horror, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Cancer, Death of parent, and Genocide

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Trafficking, Classism, Confinement, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Genocide, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Minor: Car accident and Animal death