Joe Rogan: ‘Heart-wrenching’ source of cobalt used in electric vehicle, iPhone batteries

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A Harvard visiting professor and modern slavery activist has exposed the “appalling” cobalt mining industry in the Congo on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that went viral.

The video has already racked up more than one million views and counting.

Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How The Blood of The Congo Powers Our Lives, told podcast host Joe Rogan that there’s no such thing as “clean cobalt”.

“That’s all marketing,” Prof Kara said.

Prof Kara…

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