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A review by melnao1
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Death, and Colonisation