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Kilday, Gregg (June 30, 1995). " Congo 's surprise box office success". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on July 10, 2022 . Retrieved July 10, 2022. This book is sitting heavy on my soul in the couple days after having read it. Gut wrenching depiction of a brutal industry. The author clearly has an agenda, look at his other books. But the strength of the stories told carries the day. I was extremely blessed to get an audiobook ARC for this read and I am so glad I did. The narration for this book was fantastic. I will be adding this narrator to my "must listen" list. He tells the story of Congo and cobalt and all that has happened to the author in a straightforward, easy to listen to way and I am so grateful to have received this audiobook; it made an already very difficult read a teeny bit easier. Hamilton, Richard F. "Forgotten Holocaust". The Washington Post. January 7, 2001. Accessed April 29, 2018.

National Assembly (500 seats; 439 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 61 directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote; members serve 5-year terms) And thus continues the cycle of child labor that supplies the vast majority of cobalt to the global supply chain. And what is this cobalt used for? Rechargeable lithium batteries in phones, laptops and electric vehicles. Congo works in the same way that Sphere (1987) and Jurassic Park (1990) -- my favorite Crichton titles -- work. A team of scientists is sent on a dangerous mission that will require technical expertise, ingenuity, and a conflict between ambition and responsibility. I love that Crichton takes the ideal neutrality and benefits of science and juxtaposes them with the realities of funding, application, and career ambition. These three works also serve to map out what I believe is Crichton approaching and reaching the peak of his writing. My only wish is that I would have read Congo first, rather than third. Few nations are blessed with a more diverse abundance of resource riches than the Congo. No country in the world has been more severely exploited.”Need another clear picture? Did you know that during the pandemic there was increased pressure put on Congolese cobalt extraction? Billions of us relied, more than ever, on our rechargeable batteries to continue remote working and schooling. It put pressure on the artisanal miners and many more children had to join the mining workforce to keep up with the demand and help their families survive. COVID protocols? What protocols? Non-existent. If they didn’t contract the virus and share it with their family causing death, they still stopped their education to provide for US. Neier 2012, p. 43: "The story is familiar thanks to Adam Hochschild's 1998 book, King Leopold's Ghost."

These quotes set the tone for this exposé on the cobalt mining-induced plight imposed on the citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Katanga province. This book does a disturbingly good job depicting the gruesome and tragic details of cobalt-mining in the Congo. It also weaves in the history of how the Congo came to be what it is—nothing more than a mineral resource colony for more developed nations. The author conducted on the ground research and spoke to numerous individuals involved in the market, including miners and traders on multiple levels. With these accounts the book reveals the horrific details of mining in the Congo. There are many episodes in the history of the Congo that are bloodier than what is happening in the mining sector today, but none of these episodes ever involved so much suffering for so much profit linked so indispensably to the lives of billions of people around the world.” Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. To prepare for writing the book, I planned to go to Africa to see gorillas on the slopes of the Virunga volcano chain in eastern Congo. But at that time, there was a war between Tanzania and Uganda, and the eastern Congo were much too dangerous to visit. No one would take me there.

When I first saw the preview for the movie, Congo, it was a no-brainer that I would be seeing it as soon as it came out. Michiko Kakutani (1 September 1998). "Genocide With Spin Control". New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 April 2001 . Retrieved 13 June 2012. Hochschild has stitched it together into a vivid, novelistic narrative



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