“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”-Malcolm S. Forbes.

@alexcarter8807

9 ай бұрын

ok boomer.

@TodaTruth

9 ай бұрын

@@alexcarter8807Gen Z 🧟‍♀️ 📲

@Jerahmeelli415

8 ай бұрын

Amen

@lucamckenn5932

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Mario you rock.

@vyhozshu

7 ай бұрын

that guy ran opium empire pushing it in china w/ the roosevelts

It' is sad how people complimenting this documentary but never mentioned the struggle these people are facing.. don't get me wrong this is excellent work 👍 the truth is we all gonna pay for what we are doing to these people.. my heart is broken watching this show 😢

@MSDGroup-ez6zk

9 ай бұрын

The problem is why the USA allies still colonize some Africans or other parts of the world?

@KyleRuggles

9 ай бұрын

I agree. :( The real truth is often hard for people to face, ever see that episode of South Park when Kyle's dad goes to San Francisco with his Hybrid EV and they're all smelling their farts? Kind of the same thing.

@crush3095

9 ай бұрын

it takes like an hour, but eventually they turn to Finland, and they show the same environmental destruction and lawsuits in favor of the companies I was very pleased about this turn, showing that no life matters in their pursuit of wealth

@SpaceBugFood

9 ай бұрын

​@@MSDGroup-ez6zkas a Russian my country has plenty to be ashamed of in Africa

@MSDGroup-ez6zk

9 ай бұрын

@@SpaceBugFood anyone can say one is a Russian. You should be proud to be Russian if you are. Why? Look at the USA. they like to talk about human rights but claim their indigenous people's lands are their lands and put restrictions so it will be costly to maximise those lands. The UN stated Article 3 for indigenous people to get their sovereign rights. However, the USA still practice the Treaty of Paris which allows the USA to acquire their indigenous people's land with force. The world, USA has used the Ponzi scheme so the world funds their live style.

Those People singing at the opening , was very heart felt, striking concerns for sure.

@TheBrandNewICumEverywhere

2 ай бұрын

bouga bouga song

@___Denaz

18 күн бұрын

O sebono hle

I feel awful for the citizens. Im shook watching this. I cannot understand why their government cant just create a real mining company and hire the adult locals. And force the Chinese to pay the mining company actual prices. How are they sitting on money but remain so poor. Mind boggling. I hate seeing people mistreated. It doesnt have to be like this. Great documentary DW.

@devverma144

7 ай бұрын

The history of Congo is extremely sad. Look up the "Congo Free State atrocities". For the longest time it was the personal property of a Belgian king. Yes, not a colony but a personal property of King Leopold II. He made the lives of natives a living hell to extract as much Rubber as possible for his personal gain. The state was later transferred to Belgium which didn't change much. Then they gave independence to the country in a very deplorable state with no infrastructure or measures taken to make sure the country could run on its own. The country has been highly unstable since. The native leaders continued on the same path of exploitation. Multiple coups and civil wars later, the country is still not run properly. They don't really have money to set up their own mining company. The country is running on foreign aid.

@sylvieamani780

7 ай бұрын

This is an example of why I support the Niger Coup which has now made it able for the new leaders to increase the price for their Uranium. This price is what other competitors pay on the international market. Finally some fairness for their people. I look forward to the day the Congolese people will be able to benefit the same way.

@anonymousprivet1227

7 ай бұрын

@@devverma144 They are constantly battling big industry high tech countries although they have never had the opportunity to regroup from the previous devastating external government occupations.

@chasejones8302

7 ай бұрын

@@devverma144 Didn't Europe go through WWII? Didn't Asia get obliterated in the 60's and 70's? King Leopold died in 1909.

@miral6694

6 ай бұрын

@@sylvieamani780 And who will that money go to? In a military dictatorship, the answer is always those at a top, even more so than in other forms of government. This is exactly Congo is dealing with, and Niger may soon have to as well. It's not about whether the coup leaders mean well, but the pure cold math of geopolitics - military dictatorships must be corrupt, or they just get overthrown by the next coup, who can promise to pay their supporters better with the money the first dictator wasn't stealing from the people. CGP Grey's Rules for Rulers is a very good (if basic) primer on the subject. The rulers will build golden palaces from the coagulated blood of the people.

From a E.U. citizen: I once again thank you all for this precious work, and I'm really sorry for the things I don't know and for the things my country might contribute to, that hurt other human beings. I'll try to be more conscious and more wise about my life on this earth. I value you all. peace

@hakasonma8588

9 ай бұрын

So you’re gunna stop supporting climate change and not buy anything EV? Must be nice to live in delusion like a hypocrite and then wonder why no one wants any part of yalls agenda, so y’all have to turn to forcing such ideologies on the masses

@turboed1337

9 ай бұрын

The most underrated human. I salute you good sir/ma'am. You are the reason I breathe peacefully everyday in this world. If people like you understood things I am sure this world would be far less miserable than right now

@tmada8270

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, as an African it's comforting to know that you feel empathy for what our leaders in collusion with ours are doing to our detriment

@julianparker2758

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like your blaming the victim

@patrickrafferty4921

7 ай бұрын

So tell your government that we need to build nuclear plants at scale across the west, then we can work on recycling technology for batteries, and then we can electrify everything if it makes sense. Remember also too little CO2 and the planet will stop greening. And remember in the Cretaceous period, temperatures were 5 to 7 degrees warmer than now and the dinosaurs seemed dumb, fat and happy. Just how our money grubbing grifters , aka “politicians” would like us to be.

I think the global economic structure put in place by financial giants who have created a business model of the cheapest labor for the highest profits is the main cause, not just the mineral itself.

@dukeofthedance8062

9 ай бұрын

100% agree that's a big part of it.

@386xt80

9 ай бұрын

Exactly this. Windfalls of natural resources should be lifting DRC and other supplier nations out of poverty and this colonial artifact of indebtedness to the west. When it doesn't, it's only exploitation. Also, MF DOOM a legend!

@dukeofthedance8062

9 ай бұрын

@@386xt80 I kept thinking: "why dont usa businessmen go in and set these guys up really nice with good wages and safer jobs so WE can get the cobalt?" Guess usa thinks it's not worth it even when these poor people are getting product sold with heavy Chinese thumb on it. We can't offer them better than _that_ ?? Give them a union without intimidation and it would help boost Africa as developing country, but I would be so insulted if I weighed it 5 times each with different scales and then theirs said said 10lbs lighter. Wonder how many chinese people accidentally disappear when there. Some of these people live in toughest conditions ever. They don't have anything to lose so I'm kind of surprised they haven't rebelled against china yet or firmly said "dont come back, we dont need you." and mean it. There's so many other customers or buyers they could find, so if legitimate, then the world would accept their cobalt no prob and maybe buy more of it to help prove things can change when done right.

@TheManLab7

9 ай бұрын

The way it always has been then.

@Fister-kw5un

9 ай бұрын

Can you explain more, or do you only know the commie headlines?

The businesses who want the cobalt should be forced to build schools and support local infrastructure in and around the areas the workers live and the mines. They should have audits for the amount they have given back to the community. I don’t understand why this can’t be done

@boremir3956

2 ай бұрын

Of course it can be done and much more. It's not profitable to the companies so it doesn't happen. In order to understand why something happens or doesn't you need to look at the underlying system and the incentives for those with money and power.

@yemio1005

2 ай бұрын

@@boremir3956 Of course I understand there’s no financial incentive for businesses, the point is they should be forced to do it regardless, as I previously stated.

@auntviolet7720

Ай бұрын

@@boremir3956They once had child labour in the UK, apparently children worked long hours in unhealthy situations, losing fingers in machinery etc, child chimney sweeps. New laws put an end to that, so the same can be done elsewhere. It’s absurd to suggest that profits can’t be made under humane conditions, it’s just that these large corporations are run by people who are insatiably greedy, and lacking in a moral compass, or compassion.

@ceezb5629

7 күн бұрын

Sounds like the issue lays with the Chinese conglomerate extracting all the minerals. Congo government sold out its natural wealth. How is Congo population poor if they have so much natural wealth? Because the government officials were bribed. Congolese government should NATIONALIZE its cobalt mines. Kick any foreign companies out that are destroying water supplies and farming lands.

@Remy-hf6bt

6 күн бұрын

they cannot, to keep the population in the dark.. once educated or have access on internet they will know the real value of what's in their backyard!

I only have to express: What a bloody abuse and injustice 😡 😢.

@TheBrandNewICumEverywhere

2 ай бұрын

you fell for their propaganda

In addition to the similar topic- dirty copper, DW team is the only few media in the world to report this kind of things. Keep up the good work!

@TheBrandNewICumEverywhere

2 ай бұрын

they make great propaganda, sad that they didn't exist back in 1939, they would have changed the whole point of view of the world!

@headhonchotheone9041

2 ай бұрын

@@TheBrandNewICumEverywhereyour delusional

This Documentary is a powerful eye-opener, exposing the heartbreaking reality of cobalt miners in Congo facing exploitation by Chinese companies. It's time we question when human greed will wane. Just like the oil industry in the last century, cobalt mining today shows how we must learn to care for one another. Let's stand united, demanding ethical practices and respect for human rights in the mining industry. Together, we can create a fairer world, where profit doesn't come at the cost of lives and dignity. This documentary serves as a wake-up call, urging us to prioritize humanity over greed and work towards a more compassionate and sustainable future.

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

@Jkl62200

8 ай бұрын

Are you and DW going for give Glencore of Switzerland and ERG of Luxembourg a free pass? You do know that many of the locals miners are on a freelance basis? How about the Belgians who ruled them for eons? It's offensive to always blame the Chinese. Yes.. They could invest more on LEGITIMATE employees but at least they pay. There was a time when westerners came in and just took.

@rossengeorgiew9589

7 ай бұрын

​@@Jkl62200bingo + you never know who is the actual owner of the mines, who is the investor and who is only the miner...

@chubiforever1

6 ай бұрын

@@Jkl62200 These people are such hypocrites. I grow tired of the double standards and hypocrisy. Hope these western "experts" get their comeuppance

@arkadiuszjandylewski152

5 ай бұрын

Every job is exploitation. People will be damaged when they work, even the west is not free of this. We must all work otherwise we DIE!

It's a real eye-opener to see the challenges behind the shift to electric vehicles. While it's a step towards addressing climate change, the reliance on cobalt raises serious ethical and environmental concerns. The situation in Congo and the issues with market dominance are alarming. It's crucial for the industry and regulators to find sustainable and ethical solutions. This film does a great job of highlighting the complexities of green technology and the importance of responsible sourcing. It's a call to action for more ethical practices in our journey towards a greener future.

@Deco_2k

4 ай бұрын

Honestly EV is not way to go forward you literary demage the environment and everybody pay blind eye ..

@RWBHere

4 ай бұрын

Cobalt is not used in the upcoming batteries (Lithium Iron Phosphate) and its use has been lowered drastically in Lithium-Ion batteries. It is becoming unnecessary. In any case, the huge majority of Cobalt is being used in disposable ways in oil refining. When Cobalt is being used in car traction batteries, after 8 or more years those batteries are being repurposed for less demanding energy storage systems for more years. Then they are being recycled to retrieve most of the raw materials from 'black mass'. That black mass contains those valuable commodities in far greater concentration than in the original ores.

@bluest1524

4 ай бұрын

Are you a politician or something? Have some courage. Call out the cowardice and greed of Chinese and western companies, and the slavery of African people. Show some backbone here.

@yuelingchu4361

4 ай бұрын

​That is interesting. ​Do you know how lithium iron phosphate is sourced and produced? @@RWBHere

@nunyabiznes4471

4 ай бұрын

Pollution is the problem. Climate change is called weather. One good volcanic eruption and there goes sunlight and trees/greenery dies. What will the climate alarmists do then? Say we need to raise taxes so volcano’s don’t erupt?

Good job on clarifying this DW - I'm Congolese so this gives me abit more clarity on this resource for my people's sake.

Here is the thing, business will push for the maximum legal benefit of what it can do without blow back. It is up to the government to push back, to protect its citizens against outside sources. If this problem resists there is something seriously wrong with the government

@scottandrews947

9 ай бұрын

Good luck with that. These days, all governments are controlled by those big businesses and are massively corrupt.

@386xt80

9 ай бұрын

African countries were structured by their colonial master nations to transfer their wealth to them even after independence all in the name of servicing bad debt. While corruption exists in Africa, it is impossible to service these debts and grow a national economy.

@shuaipeng602

9 ай бұрын

@@386xt80 it may be true, but nothing is impossible, china came back from what it was to now. History is history, is the future people Have to focus on.

@dekev7503

9 ай бұрын

@@shuaipeng602 China’s case is entirely different. Most Chinese are of the same tribe, speak the same language and share the same cultures. China also has over 4000 years of history. Most African countries were formed by force( divide and conquer) by colonialists. These countries are made up of multiple sovereign tribal kingdoms that in many instances were at war with each other for centuries. After independence the former colonial powers still exploit these countries either through direct control or indirectly by turning a blind eye to the unscrupulous practices of these multinational companies, now the Chinese have gotten in on it. This exploitation takes place because it is almost impossible to have a stable and competent government in most African countries. If a president from tribe A gets elected into office, his 1st action in office would be to appoint his tribes men in key positions in government and to pass policies that victimise various marginalised tribes that have been in attrition with his tribe in one way or the other. When the next president, who is from tribe B gets elected, he repeats the same process, and the vicious cycle continues.

@pietrodeveloper

9 ай бұрын

That's a very dishonest take. It's easier to think that some evil and greedy people are the cause, but the reality is they are just satisfying the REAL demands of the public. It's buyers who, for good reasons, try to get the most out their money. People when buy a t-shirt or a solar panel will filter by price, that's the reality. And if you offer them the same product at a higher price saying they were more responsible with they employees and environment, at least 80% of them will choose a cheaper. 80% of solar panels sold are made in China, just 1% was made in Europe.

As someone who works as cobalt and nickel mining analyst, this is a great documentary. It shines a light on the great need for these critical minerals that go into EVs and renewable energy systems to reduce carbon emissions, but also the challenges that this brings - particularly to the local populations who do not benefit from the riches of their own nations/lands, and in many instances, suffer from it. More sustainable mining is needed.

@ct1762

6 ай бұрын

reduce carbon emissions by what... .02% IF we get to 80% of sales to EV's? This is not the way... not by a long shot.

@richardlangley90

6 ай бұрын

What is the way?@@ct1762

@the1truth420

6 ай бұрын

@@ct1762 that is a bot. Don't bother. Jewtube is full of em

@nunyabiznes4471

5 ай бұрын

Really? 500 thousand pounds of raw ore to make one battery? The temperature of earth has fluctuated a whopping two degrees in 200 years. We have 450 parts per million of co2 in the atmosphere, plants die off at 250 PPM. Greenhouses pump in 2000 PPM to stimulate plant growth. If someone dropped George Washington into an empty field right now, he’d have no idea based on the weather that he wasn’t in his era. This is a made up emergency to usher in globalism period.

@ANERI2005

5 ай бұрын

Wiesz jaki jest teraz poziom CO2? 0.4% w atmosferze. Możesz to sprawdzić. Poniżej 0.03 % zacznie zamierać życie na Ziemi. To też możesz sprawdzić. ECOFASZYŚCI prowadzą świat i ludzkość do zagłady ‼️😡

It's actually terrifying to see this.... it's crazy how we're destroying our world and at this time and age people still living and working in those conditions....

@mickiemallorie

3 ай бұрын

Its even more terrifying that after slavery, and then colonialism, they just found another way to take and exploit from Africa...there's no end to it. The devil has a firm grip of this world.

Did they mention we already use tonnes of the stuff cleaning fuel? Cobalt plays a vital role in catalysing the removal of sulphur from oil, contributing to a more sustainable society. Desulphurisation is the process by which sulphur is removed from oil. A significant use of cobalt globally is as part of catalysts in this desulphurisation process.

Whenever I bring this subject up when talking about the transition to E.V.'s, first I'm told I'm wrong, then I'm told that it can't be as bad as I describe, then I'm told that non-cobalt batteries are just around the corner and it's not an issue.

@MSDGroup-ez6zk

9 ай бұрын

any new technology can only damage more to the earth. For example computers. What the world will do with computer garbage or CO2 from cars or plastics?

@user-ri8zj4mx2x

9 ай бұрын

your not wrong,the people that say your wrong are wilfully blind.

@agolftweetler3995

9 ай бұрын

depends what your argument is. biomass extraction is far less and cleaner here than fossil fuels (even with cobalt which is just byproduct of copper). Meanwhile Tesla recycles their batteries & using cobalt free in half of its new cars produced. One of the greenest lithium factories in world is being built in SoCal as I type.

@johnnyblue4799

9 ай бұрын

@@agolftweetler3995 Are you trying to say the mining for lithium is any better?

@weirdshibainu

9 ай бұрын

@@agolftweetler3995 You're the perfect example of willful blindness to the issue detailed in this video.

Great work DW! This film is shocking and horrific how the Congo people are being treated. And not to mention nature

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@Wilson-xd4zq

9 ай бұрын

DW is late to the party. What's going on in Congo has been reported for over a year now. Lithium also has pollution risks. So the self-described environmentalists who sanctimoniously preach about how green they are really aren't that green. They are just polluting in a different way.

@1timbarrett

9 ай бұрын

We have got to start valuing nature as part of our shared heritage…!😢

@controversial_7

8 ай бұрын

Your people are putting those kids in mines and y'all don't cre

These companies should be required to display their involvement in this type of cobalt mining it's pretty clear something is wrong here

Yet another amazing documentary DW!! Wow you folks totally rock it !! Thank You !

@DWDocumentary

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)

DW ups the game consistently - fabulous work sets high standards for others to follow. DW, keep the excellent work going!

@monopalle5768

9 ай бұрын

Rainbow parades and women, am I right everyone on earth?

@kingnghi

8 ай бұрын

Lpp

@spy_balloon

8 ай бұрын

​ @monopalle5768 👍

@rossengeorgiew9589

7 ай бұрын

​@@HuyNguyen-yh6vc😂 yeah, they always talk for some issues where only China and Russia are bad, comfortably forgetting to mention where the Investitions have their origin from... 😅

@diegovirgen8484

7 ай бұрын

Not a DW documentary. They are only the broadcasters. The production team and filmmakers… you probably meant to say that. Still, thanks DW to show a bit of this unfair world.

Amazing job DW..every cent spent, well spent.

I eagerly wait for Documentaries from DW, I loved their unbiased reporting, and to the depth analysis.

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the positive feedback! We're glad you like our content. :)

@rsc9520

8 ай бұрын

Me too !!!

@RodgersOmbongi

8 ай бұрын

Me three😂

@theantileft3835

8 ай бұрын

Unbiased???? Ummm what are you watching??? DW is an extension of the propaganda machine of the leftist agenda. Just rebranded mainstream media

@tjlovesrachel

8 ай бұрын

It’s not unbiased when it comes to guns

Great reporting, thank you for keeping us informed!

@DWDocumentary

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing your feedback!

i been watching DW documentary for many years. Love this. Keep up good work

The layers of Brokenness Greed, and disfunction is beyond me. The fact that now documentaries shed light on the Cobalt industry. Why do we continue to not do anything? We just allow Europe,China, and America to take and take from mineral rich countries in Africa but the people there live in poverty ?

@triggabun

9 ай бұрын

Our leaders sell us out. People fet voted into any government position and leave as millionaires while these companies make trillions. Selling their own people for a nickle on the thousands.

@masterlightjames950

9 ай бұрын

Well, it won't last forever. We'll just have to wait it out. If we take matters into our hands, there would be war. And at the end, the Anglo-Saxons will simply cease to exist. But why go through all that stress when their population is already plummeting? They're already going extinct, so we just need to be patient.

@grahamt5924

9 ай бұрын

People complain about the same things in Europe. Foreign owned fish farms in Scotland polute the local environment, and the locals can do nothing.

@syproful

9 ай бұрын

Globalization is the worse thing to happen after colonialism.

@grahamt5924

9 ай бұрын

@syproful Nonsense. There are over 8 billion people in the world, and rates of abject poverty are decreasing. Stop looking at just one thing and then basing everything on just this. Things are generally getting better for most. We have a few problems and this problem is certainly being shouted about, which means we are already on our way to fixing it. As for colonisation. For the most part, ut has not been that bad. You would not have really wanted the alternative.

Thanks for bringing up this issue into light.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Most informative documentary. Thank you.

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@controversial_7

8 ай бұрын

You don't care about the people that are suffering?

This is the most brilliant documentary by DW yet. Thank you for this incredible work.

@piddy44-hl5ln

9 ай бұрын

Calm down mate 😬

@monopalle5768

9 ай бұрын

bot

@matik1662

8 ай бұрын

It's biased but not as bad as western media 😂

@AusFlip

8 ай бұрын

The problems are: 1. No source information for these images. A lot of them I recognise from quite an old BBC documentary that has been slammed by people who know how it was made. 2. Cobalt from "artisinal" mining probably provides a fraction of 1% of cobalt. Also, Green Energy isn't the only use. It's also used an important catalyst in oil refining. 3. Most batteries now are LiFeP - no cobalt. Cobalt anodes tend to be high end. Eg, with model 3 now onlt the aWD LR uses a cobalt battery. 4. Last but far from least, this isn't a cobalt problem. It's a DRC problem. It's a badly undeveloped country with terrible conflict issues. If these kids weren't mining for cobalt they'd be doing whatever else they could do to make money. If they had uranium they'd be digging that up, if they had easy to access oil they be digging that up, or diamonds, or gold. Stop tying it to EVs. That's a favourite line of the oil companies, and part of the disinformation they love to put out to try to discredit EVs, which they know will kill their business model. It's an issue with development and conflict and exploitation, of which the oil companies have been at the top of the banner.

@diegovirgen8484

7 ай бұрын

Not a DW documentary. They are only the broadcasters. The production team and filmmakers… you probably meant to say that. Still, thanks DW to show a bit of this unfair world.

As always an excellent & informative documentary❤.Keep it up 👍.

I can go on about greed and all the inequality in this world. But it just breaks my heart to see what these people and especially the children in these DRC mines have to go through .

wow, this is eye-opening.. many people do not realize the impact of batteries in our phones and daily technology

The greatest challenge of this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you are right, but not knowing enough about the subject to know you are wrong…

@TheBrandNewICumEverywhere

2 ай бұрын

we know where DW stands lol

This is heartbreaking. I'm Black myself, I think about this a lot. If right to repair becomss the standard maybe we can make less items and just fix what we have. I'm trying to consume less electronics. I don't like that people who look like me are still basically enslaved. It hurts.

@kokoyaro

9 ай бұрын

Black people will always be slaves as long as we accept/adapt/envy eurocentrism. The only way to break the chains is to go back to our ancestoral wisdom/originality and see the true evil in the European/modern way of life

@jaylu7021

9 ай бұрын

That won't do squat. What they need to do is have their corrupt ass governement get some actual leaders voted who care about their people and country, than they need to drive these vampire corp out of their country, and invest in other crap, they also need to vote in some decent civil rights and human rights laws, and if it's an ethic hate thing, which seems to happen a lot over there. Remind and promote they are one people of a nation not of races or tribes.

@grahamt5924

9 ай бұрын

You think their lives would be better if we all stopped using Cobalt?

@tonylee5222

9 ай бұрын

@@grahamt5924 a lot of them are not capable if thinking in-depth, no need to waste our energy.

@JetStrip-no5xh

9 ай бұрын

@lowwaste So true. These exploitive corporations are modeled after colonialism, locals are always robbed and brutalised.

I feel like crying because corrupt leaders don't see what damage is done to the ecosystem and the future of their country or continent.

Tuned in from Nairobi Kenya

will Africa ever rest? will we ever live prosperously, like other nations, what did we do to deserve all these problems?

@roche88

9 ай бұрын

@zithekhosa1541 As long as our leaders are corrupt and take the money from the west and put in their own bank accounts outside of Africa, we africanus will stay poor. Remember, our leaders are the problem not the west.

@st.peterunner8758

9 ай бұрын

The exploitation is appalling, and it’s been hundreds of years. None of the vast wealth from the resources ever benefit Africans. It should be illegal for other countries to exploit like this

@dukeofthedance8062

9 ай бұрын

No. It will never happen unless maybe thousand or more years go by.

@budgetking2591

9 ай бұрын

@@st.peterunner8758 Today its their own corrupt leaders exploiting their countries, he's filling his pockets with billions of dollars.

@lilianasaba9846

9 ай бұрын

​@@dukeofthedance8062 and by then there will be no minerals left.

There's nothing wrong with the cobalt use itself -- but the fact that the chinese are so heavily invested in the Congo, the biggest supplier of cobalt, means that due dilligence can't be done. Neither Europe nor the United States can provide the amount of supply that the market wants. As a result, moving away from cobalt and researching new batteries is the only answer.

@randomguy7175

9 ай бұрын

The Europeans treated Africans like slaves till recently. The Africans need to worry about those thugs coming back.. not Chinese , who are building infrastructure across Africa.

@vlhc4642

9 ай бұрын

You don't need to research new batteries, cobalt free LFP batteries is already in a third of all EVs and going up, problem is China is the only one who knows how to make high performance LFPs, which means a cobalt free world is also a Chinese batteries only world. This is when you suddenly don't care about problems associated with cobalt anymore

@Broskisnowski

9 ай бұрын

So is it better if the Europeans are the ones exploiting them? How?

@zimboy9921

9 ай бұрын

The alternative will also most likely come from Africa Rinse repeat

@grahamt5924

9 ай бұрын

@@zimboy9921 mining is all over the world, not just Africa.

Another excellent DW documentary. This is why I'm happy with my bicycle, not an e-bike just a bike, and a flip phone and an oldie-old laptop I keep plugged in lol - I'd be pretty happy running it from a gel cell (no cobolt, lithium etc in those) and keeping my life as low tech as possible.

@wiezyczkowata

8 ай бұрын

if you keep your laptop plugged in then you are using more energy then you should if you had a good battery, it means you are using more fossil fuels to create electricity then cobalt...

@begonaRR

8 ай бұрын

​@@wiezyczkowata, what's the environmental impact of a new computer?

@wiezyczkowata

8 ай бұрын

​@@begonaRR what's the environmental impact of having your old laptop constantly plugged in? you don't need to buy new laptop, just new battery so it won't be plugged in, then make sure you don't degrade it too fast,

@begonaRR

8 ай бұрын

@@wiezyczkowata , plugged in just when you need it.

@begonaRR

8 ай бұрын

@@wiezyczkowata what's the carbon print of making a new battery, from extraction of components to delivery to the consumer?

Excellent documentary! Im not an expert in history, but it seems to me that this is an old story, it’s the same business model used in the past centuries: a small bunch of men benefit, the rest of the people are exploited and either in poverty or financially crippled.

@Deco_2k

4 ай бұрын

See I need tell ppl nothing has change ..

Incredible how you make such good documentaries every week!

@ericscottstevens

9 ай бұрын

One could expect that China will lodge a protest.. Or at least influence other rival producers from delving further into this human rights debacle.

@diegovirgen8484

7 ай бұрын

Not a DW documentary. They are only the broadcasters. The production team and filmmakers… you probably meant to say that. Still, thanks DW to show a bit of this unfair world.

We really need to ensure that the electricity being sourced is not supplied by coal first. If not why are we going down this path?

@begonaRR

8 ай бұрын

We waste so much energy. We need to save energy first and learn how to love with less. Having and wasting more doesn't make us happier anyway.

Keep up the good work 👍

I love DW Documentary channel. The best!

When you're actually resources rich, and yet you're being fooled by your government and foreign people, one of the many sad stories happening all over the world.

I would hate to look at chest x-rays from these poor workers; their life-span shortened. So tragic & sad.

@Agitated_Scientist

7 ай бұрын

Yeah. Those guys in the tiny mine shaft sharing an unfiltered cigarette are super concerned about their lungs too.

Wow! Thank you DW.

@DWDocumentary

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Exceptional documentary. Thank you for the public service.

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Be sure to check out our channel for more content.

Good documentary, DW you should play more attention to the synchcro between sound and image… not the first time.

“I don’t know what the hell is going on in this world…Some days I just want to stop this planet and let me off”. -Kid Rock

Thank you DW, great job, this is really the things people should know about

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment!

@diegovirgen8484

7 ай бұрын

Not a DW documentary. They are only the broadcasters. The production team and filmmakers… you probably meant to say that. Still, thanks DW to show a bit of this unfair world.

The songs from the Finnish and the Congolese choir were both amazing and really good ways to round this documentary out. I would have liked to understand why the Finnish fishermen lost their lawsuit, but otherwise I learned a ton about the whole world of cobalt and its impacts in politics, the economy, and the lives its production has impacted.

@Viper881

6 ай бұрын

You enjoyed their songs as you typed your comment on your Apple IPhone. You're the problem

@ItsOttis

5 ай бұрын

​@@Viper881and what did you type on? Your typewriter?

I love DW documentary ❤

DW is rising daily. Thank you for sharing real issues with us. Longlive DW!

@monopalle5768

9 ай бұрын

bot

I love watching your documentaries!

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, we are happy to hear you enjoy our content :)

Thank you DW!

@DWDocumentary

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I share this docu to a line group on electric vehicle. Many thanks.

They forget you have to use fossil fuels to run the power plants that supply the electric car with its power, and they will have to make more power plants for the demand of more electricity

@JasperKlijndijk

9 ай бұрын

More large and small scale gravity water storage could help with the green energie storage. Pump it up when you the wind blows, let it run a generator when there is high demand

@johnorenick9026

9 ай бұрын

Solar energy has gotten so cheap the power companies aren't making a profit on it; might actually curb their investment in solar. Sounds like a good argument for public power, to me. We need to be installing mass-produced, small, safe, clean, waste-burning fast neutron molten salt fission reactors for baseload power, with molten salt or pumped water instead of chemical batteries to store off-peak excess generation. We need to be shutting down fossil fuel power plants as fast as we can replace them with clean energy. It's here now. If this summer doesn't convince all y'all that it's dang time to get busy, nothing will.

@christianmoore7109

7 ай бұрын

If it’s natural gas (it increasingly is) then it’s cheaper

@pcnz

7 ай бұрын

No you don't have to. Look up home solar, look up your countries percentage of renewable energy...

what an excellent featured film.

Lawyers better sue now before other cobalt sources are found.

They’ve been blessed with minerals, but cursed with Leadership…

I'm think that foreign corporation in Africa should be fulfill duty not only preserve the ecosystem but provide health care to local labors whose mining the rare earth material like the cobalt which contain toxicity

Thanks...❤

I have had family members travel to Africa. Never doing an exchange of trade, though, for one event, trained an electrician during and ongoing medical camp stations. I have a few friends in resources and a geologist who sometimes joins the Sunday coffee table, he takes some of his time to identify rocks I discover while landscaping. I will speak to them about this.

Thank you DW... I have been raising this subject like these for several years. But people around me get continuously swayed by large corporations green washing. Causing a false sense of moral high-ground, as they are thinking they are "doing the right thing". I wished we had a financial system that was not built on constant growth, exploitation and consumption. What we really need to do is to find prosperity of owning and having "less". That's what I am doing right now and I am down to 0.6tons CO2/year according to WWFs climate calculator. With Swedish society adding another 3 tons on top of that. I guess that would be hard for a lot of people, but for me personally that journey has only been positive to my well-being and my life.

DW shows the truth many are unfortunately blind to see.

Complimenti. Bellissimo documentario, che mette in luce la nostra ipocrisia.

DW THANK YOU!! Blissfully free of incessant background music!! An enlightened change of policy? A new hire? what prompted the turn around?? Are you likely to "REMASTER" your past docs to reduce background music??

Excellent documentary and very informative, thank you DW. The eV generation is simply trading old problems with petroleum for new problems with heavy metals. Not mentioned, Lake Saimaa has endangered fresh water seals living in it. Lets hope they are considered during Finlands development.

@st-ex8506

9 ай бұрын

Please tell me which "heavy metals" you are talking about?

@MSDGroup-ez6zk

9 ай бұрын

Technology only damages the world from cars with CO2 into plastics.

@MSDGroup-ez6zk

9 ай бұрын

@@st-ex8506 for example blades for a wind turbine that cannot be swallowed by the earth.

@st-ex8506

9 ай бұрын

@@MSDGroup-ez6zk No, but turbine blade materials can be re-used, or now even recycled with new generation blades... it is even mandatory in my country Switzerland. No dumping or burying of any kind is allowed. But my question was about heavy metals...

@agolftweetler3995

9 ай бұрын

​@@st-ex8506batteries can be recycled too. Tesla does this and half it's battery line is now cobalt free.

Wauw! What a documentary!! What a Sad country but What Beautifull People and a Strong living power!

Thank you DW for bringing the plight of these people forward, something sadly the BBC would never tackle. 'Cobalt red' by Siddharth Kara is a great read on the subject.

@DWDocumentary

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

If they complain against own mining industry they might be killed so are complaining against some Foreign companies which have no control over.. If one company does not buy another comes to buy

Seeing highly unsafe and precarious working condition and activities in Congo was extremely painful. We need to work systematically for mitigating those!

😢😢😢 I've worked as an internal security for Kamoto Cooper Company in Kolwezi from 2011 - 2012, left the company after 9 months as a result of bad working conditions. It's scary what i saw happening there.

Reminds me of when Nestle comes in and uses up all the water. No one wins but Nestle.

LiFeP plus manganese is making a much cheaper battery with almost the same capacity as batteries needing nickel and cobalt. So I don't think this is going to be a future issue.

I’ve gotten in fights with people about this at work cause I talk to kids about these things and people get upset. No one wants to hear about this but I often bring it up in “polite society”! Along with the face that while I use a fair number of electronic I haven’t driven in 10 years or own a car. EV cars are not the answer. If we want to keep any semblance of a normal comfortable life, ordinary citizens need to stop driving in cars, push for more public transportation and walking cities. Only vehicles on the streets need to be emergency vehicles, transport vehicles and buses!!

@crowmob-yo6ry

3 ай бұрын

Agreed! I live 100% car-free and refuse to drive. I don't care how much hatred I receive from car-addicted American suburbanites.

@crowmob-yo6ry

3 ай бұрын

Agreed! I live 100% car-free and refuse to drive. I don't care how much hatred I receive from car-addicted American suburbanites.

Another great doc from YOU! Hope Congo finds a way out. It is criminal what is happening there. Real greenwahing here in global North!

It's hard to look at these global problems, but we as the global community need to see it for ourselves. Thanks DW

EVs do not require Cobalt in their batteries. Most Teslas now use LFP batteries (cobalt-free) in most of its EVs. Some other EV manufacturers (e,g, Ford and BYD) are also switching to LFP or LMFP batteries for their basic automotive lines. Batteries for high-performance .models are still using cobalt.

@alekkoomanoff7281

9 ай бұрын

But the high performance Teslas that Musk made his reputation on still use plenty of cobalt. I would venture a guess that trucks also need it. Elon is South African;he cares squat about Congolese.

@grahamt5924

9 ай бұрын

@@alekkoomanoff7281 You know Musk and his personal thoughts now. 🤔

@GenealogistBuchanan

9 ай бұрын

@alekkoomanoff7281 Elon said he is willing to install security cameras in the mines producing cobalt for Tesla to verify that they use no child labour. That might be a good start.

@ensiyeitu1012

9 ай бұрын

You just write nonsense

@angelokennedy3650

8 ай бұрын

First of all 50% of Teslas (or model 3 in particular) is NOT the most. Secondly, as of the last quarter, LFP EVs accounted for ONLY 30% of the total market share; and NCM at least 60%! Moreover, even if Tesla moved for more LFPs in their EVs, that wouldn't impact much of the market. REMEMBER: EVs, besides industrial green energy, are only a portion of the battery market. And again China or Chinese place RANGE top of their EV choice, and the same is true even in the US and cold regions. So spare us the need to downplay what's going on, as range won't be coming anything other than cobalt for the foreseeable future.

The second run on Congo, just that this time around it is done with the connivance of Congolese leaders. This deficit of leadership across Africa is the reason the continent anguishes in poverty and suffering. The hope is that the future generation will turn around this sad legacy.

@masterlightjames950

9 ай бұрын

The deficit of common sense is your own problem. African leaders have fought hard over the decades. But they were consistently being killed.

I majored in Geology/Environmental science/ Biology/ Cardio-Pulmonary Care. As a child in Kettering Ohio me and the neighbor kids played in the Creeks... We covered 10 thousand miles within the area of our neighborhood... Wet and Muddy, cold in the winter we watched the wild life in the water and in the streams surrounding habitat's. Fast forward 50 years since I got out of the Navy... nearly all life is gone . even plant life shuns the waters edges leading to increased stream loads of erosion... The Creek is DEAD in 2023 Nice work Kettering Ohio, Nice work EPA sector 3 . The director there, JOHN says ,dilution is the solution to pollution... "dump you oils, paints, and other toxins in the streams to dilute them. Jon has seldom done anything meaningful to protect the waters in particular. DEAD WATER is proof. We are headed in this direction under communist controllers in DC. Corporate-USA. Money owns the white slaves in America.

thank you

Many EV batteries no longer use cobalt, and the largest use of cobalt comes from the portable consumer electronics industry. Cobalt-free lithium-iron EV batteries are used in Tesla's standard range cars. Cobalt-free sodium-ion batteries are being used in EVs in China.

@casperthelegend1458

4 ай бұрын

The same evs that china has literally hundreds of fields of thousands of cars with less than 100 miles on them that randomly catch fire? 🤔 well boy i sure am glad that they don't use cobalt i was worried that they might be harming the environment but you're very insightful and intelligent comment has put all my worries at rest 🤡🤡🤡🤡

When green is never green.

These days Conflict Minerals are heavily regulated in Europe & US. All of Tin, Tungsten, Tantalum & Gold with Cobalt and Mica being traced back to the source by responsible sourcing policies. In this case, OEM's will not risk their reputation and will fight to not have conflict minerals in their supply chain.

I weep for AFRICA!The richest continent but exploited by corrupt leaders.

It’s about time citizens mount a big pressure on the leaders. There’s no way countries with all these rich natural resources should be poor. No way!

This very same thing has been going on since colonial days concerning gold in both Africa and S America. They use liquid mercury (the cheapest of course) to separate the gold out of what's basically heavy thick mud or else broken down rocks and where has it all gone for over I don't know.. maybe over 500yrs right into nearby rivers. This is just a new version of something very, very old. And electric cars won't even be around forever. Within next 10yrs someone will create something superior to them and it will be the "new thing". Like flying cars that truly work without any error period with an AI that's smarter and faster than it's human passenger. Like George Jetson world.. but horribly real. Just imagine all the wealthy people flying overhead or getting stuck in traffic, rising up like a magic carpet from the old days and then take off spewing no exhaust from using a propulsion system that doesn't even require a battery. These green cars and items might be the worse environmental disaster in global history. How could the people who started this have not projected or extrapolated this would happen?? It takes things to MAKE things. And if the items it takes to make "better for enviorn" are actually WORSE for the enviornment, then what could they have ever been thinking except for battery companies singing "money money money money,,,, MONEY!!" as a cash grab when it lasted, while it lasted scamming even our own govt who then makes money too with wheels and deals about "we need batteries but don't want to pay americans a decent wage to perform tasks that should maybe be national security (imagine if they purposely built in backdoor kill switches, I could see them doing that), so China, please don't be mad, we need your slave work force more than ever now!!" It's a sick world, what else can I say.

What a great exemple of perseverance.

Technology and science are advancing very quickly. I hope that a new kind of battery can be developed that does not need cobalt.

The images of those poor people prospecting for cobalt deep underground in dangerous and unhealthy tunnels really disturbs me.

@galaxiancitizen851

9 ай бұрын

Look at history. Prospecting like this and in much worse conditions has been going on for centuries across all world cultures!

Electric cars don't really fix the climate crisis, its like taking painkillers before you get a headache.

@HailAzathoth

9 ай бұрын

Exactly

@Anon-xd3cf

9 ай бұрын

More like hitting yourself in the face with a hammer... because you have a headache.

Your channel ! Makes me think about how miserably people all around the world are living so i am just so contented for every single day i am blessed with

Well done ben

Isn't the biggest problem the fact that there are no mining companies in DRC that would build a proper infrastructure so people wont have to dig like in 19 century?

THANKYOU for broadcasting this! It could be seen as contribersial and I imagine the companies would of tried to suppress it, I agree we need to switch our energy and come of petrol and oil based products but this isn’t the way, we’ve got options like wind and water pressure ect there are buildings on “grand designs” that are specifically made to be eco conscious but sending people into the mines isn’t the answer

@robertpounds4842

9 ай бұрын

Cobalt is used in fuel to remove sulphur never to be recovered. It is also used in phone and laptop battery’s ,it is being removed from car and storage battery’s as we speak for cheaper and safer chemistries

@Boo-pv4hn

9 ай бұрын

@@robertpounds4842 I agree with reusing what’s already in stock but not doing this to get more. We should be putting resources into making them in the lab. Or making alternatives in the lab

@djinn666

7 ай бұрын

@@Boo-pv4hn "We should be putting resources into making them in the lab" Okay, so you want to make cobalt, an element, in the lab? Do you have a 6x10^23 particle accelerators in your back pocket that you'd like to share with the world?

My question is: after it has depleted ( this cobalt), where will they get more?

They should be a an uproar just based on this documentary alone but the world just doesn't care, we have also been numbed to feeling someone else's pain over time

Such brave men. The look of pure anger on the miners face @19:46 sums it all up. Such a shame that those who govern the DRC care only enough to enrich themselves in the short term rather than reaping the full benefits of their newfound global position