‘Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives’ w/ Siddharth Kara https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/892b7d7e-fc92-4aed-9a12-3e48cf21b3c2 From smartphones to electric vehicles, all lithium-ion rechargeable batteries made today require cobalt, a unique mineral that is almost exclusively mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Siddharth Kara, author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, joins the show to explain the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining and the numerous layers of multinational supply chains that serve to erode accountability for the absolute exploitation for absolute profit. #BreakThroughNews Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:39:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube ‘Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives’ w/ Siddharth Kara https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/892b7d7e-fc92-4aed-9a12-3e48cf21b3c2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.