Why Are Net Zero Advocates So Self-Righteous, Given the Policy Depends on Child and Slave Labour?

     

CHRIS MORRISON | THE DAILY SCEPTIC

The much touted green energy economy and Net Zero goals are built on the dirty little secrets of slavery, child labour and environmental destruction, according to H. Sterling Burnett of the libertarian U.S. think tank the Heartland Institute. Those pushing Net Zero, like the Democrats in the U.S. and green energy elites profiting from mandates and subsidies, know child and slave labour is used to produce the minerals their green technologies demand. “They claim to care about it, but their actions belie their words,” charges Sterling Burnett.

‘Like That of Slavery’: Chinese Companies Allegedly Trafficking 40,000 Children In Congo, Forcing Them to Work In Hazardous Mines

    

Nyamekye Daniel | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

Human rights advocates have accused China of exploiting thousands of Congolese children to work in cobalt mines.

Are ELECTRIC VEHICLES just a GREEN PIPE DREAM? Humanity's LITHIUM ION BATTERY ADDICTION is becoming one of the world's biggest new sources of pollution

    

The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction

As the world scrambles to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, the environmental impact of finding all the lithium required could become a major issue in its own right

AMIT KATWALA | WIRED

Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle: what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, tablets, laptops and electric cars.