It’s a very sanitary way of say “indentured servitude” and “slavery”, eh?
Chinese Lithium Giant Pulls EVs Deeper Into Forced Labor Glare
A lithium producer for carmakers including BMW AG and Tesla Inc. is beginning work to assess battery metals projects in Xinjiang, deepening links between electric vehicle supply chains and a region at the heart of human-rights allegations against China.
Ganfeng Lithium Co., China’s top producer of the material, is partnering through a subsidiary with a state-backed entity to accelerate exploration for and potentially develop lithium, nickel and other critical metal assets in the region. Ganfeng’s Chairman Li Liangbin earlier this year visited Xinjiang — where activists and Western governments say Uyghurs and other Muslim citizens have been subjected to forced labor — to discuss cooperating with the local government on the plans.
Electric vehicle makers already face criticism over labor concerns and environmental damage tied to the extraction of metals used in their products. The deepening connection between Ganfeng and Xinjiang is set to draw more scrutiny from investors and consumers. Ganfeng said in November it had won a new three-year deal to provide battery-grade lithium hydroxide products to Tesla, and has previously disclosed other contracts with companies including BMW.
It’s a long, long piece, but, come on, we all know China is using what’s essentially slave labor, and, at the end of the day, the climate cult will not care beyond making a few speeches, because Saving The Earth From Burning Up is more important to them than actual human rights, since, really, the climate cult shares the same Authoritarian beliefs as China. It goes well with the child labor in African nations so the climate elites can drive EVs.
I've been saying this part of what the climate cult is about for almost 20 years. People used to say I was nuts when I said it was about politics not science. Warms my heart when people finally realize what's truly going on
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) July 17, 2022
Let’s look at that Washington Examiner piece
Extreme environmentalism is an ideology that cares little for human life, even regards it as a blight on the Earth that should be reduced. Its instinctive sympathies are against our species. It wants less economic growth, less entrepreneurial spirit, less development, less energy, less safety, less food, less comfort.
Who suffers? Those in poor nations, of course, and we in the rich nations that impose our obsessions on ourselves and on others wherever we can.
And the Elites who push this won’t suffer. But, the lower and middle classes in rich nations will suffer.
Honda confirms 436 million dollar EV factory in China
Reuters.com
De7 2016
Honda has been there for years building EVs
Thanks, Johnny-then they’re right next to the child laborers mining the lithium used for batteries..
Today’s left have no problem with forced vaccinations, with forced mask wearing, with forcing people to provide goods and services to events which offend their moral sensibilities and religious beliefs, to forcing people to accept homosexuality and transgenderism, with forcing people to buy electric vehicles, with forcing medical students to learn how to perform prenatal infanticide, just a whole host of things, so why would anyone be surprised that they have no problems with forced labor to mine lithium, or child labor in Africa to mine cobalt, when it’s to save Mother Gaia?
I’ve said it before: the left are pro-choice on exactly one thing.
The left knows perfectly well that:
-EVs main source of power is coal;
-Children are ill and dying in slave conditions in ecologically disastrous mining operations to obtain the raw materials for solar panels and EV batteries;
-EVs are basically worthless once the original battery is worn out;
-EV battery disposal is another environmental disaster waiting to happen;
-Solar panels and wind generators don’t have a prayer of generating the energy it took to create them;
-Subsidies from the taxpayers in the name of “green” or “renewable” energy are only making a few very rich assholes a little bit richer.
The left knows all these things, yet they have pushed this not ready for market tech on us. The subsidies only serve to stifle advances in the technologies, after all, why do expensive research to make a better product when you can get corrupt progressives to pay you for your current shitty one?
None of this has ever made any sense. We need the market to leave this crap on the shelf and demand that our betters stop subsidizing it.
Give us a worthwhile product and we’ll talk, until then all you offer is a sure path to anarchy, which is what the elites wanted all along.
According to America’s #1 News Source a meeting of skeptics have outlined a set of criteria for accepting the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Yes, it’s called evidence
What evidence would a global warming “skeptic” need to see to finally understand that the Earth is warming from CO2 added to the atmosphere?
Almost every non-advanced nation on Earth uses forced labor or child labor. Any imported items you use are likely to have been touched by forced or child labor.
Jeff,
So you advocate for child labor, having no knowledge of what that entails. You will do anything to get attention.
It’s somewhat, a little bit, hypocritical for the Mx Teach and the “American” right to suddenly whine about global labor rights violations when they’ve ignored these issues for decades.
Nearly every commodity imported into the US involves labor violations. Bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, electronics, fireworks, fish, shoes, clothing etc.
Yet, the “American” right chooses to whine about EV batteries.
Maybe, just maybe, the correct action is to work to eliminate forced labor and child labor. Nah, we Americans like our cheap shit from China, India, Central America and Africa. Just look away…
The irony of a person with your low morals calling Teach (or anyone for that matter) hypocritical especially about anything regarding labor. After all it is your party that had the slaves.
FJB
Speaking of morality, I am not responsible for two young women aborting their babies.