IN their relentless effort to push us towards electric cars, I wonder if Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion know the cost to human life.
Each electric car requires cobalt, which is mined, often by children, in appalling conditions. The Democratic Republic of Congo has 60 per cent of the world’s cobalt and 40,000 children as young as four work in polluted mines for as little as 8 pence a day.
Each year, about 80 children are killed. If they survive into adulthood, their life expectancy is short due to the deadly condition of cobalt lung.
Greta, it isn’t your childhood that has been stolen. The relentless quest to rid the world of petrol and diesel cars is stealing the childhood and lives of African children.
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