alt Hacker NewsWhy are reposting stories from 2023? Has cobalt come back in the news? As far as I know most battery producers have been shifting their battery chemistry to reduce the amount of cobalt. This should come as a relief to the readers of this article, right?
A point Kara also makes, which I think is too important to leave out, is that even when the supply chain gets fixed the damage has been done. The environment it has destroyed, the lives it has taken. Reparations are in order. Otherwise it’s just looting and leaving, we can’t call ourselves progressive as humans if we did not change our behaviour in the past 200 years.