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97/100Author:
Siddharth Kara
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
January 31, 2023
Cobalt Red is an exposé of the toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.
What The Reviewers Say
Cobalt Red takes the form of a righteous quest to expose injustice through a series of vignettes of exploitation and misery.
Kara’s book is timely, important, compelling, and while the subject is tough his approach is clear and concise and, in that way, easy to read.
If you want to know what’s being unleashed by the rush to mandate electric cars for a so-called clean-energy transition, read Cobalt Red. It will leave you almost as shaken as its author, Siddharth Kara, who braved lawless militia and state-backed soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo as he visited the fountainheads of the world’s lithium-battery supply chain.
Extensively researched, this piercing narrative is muckraking journalism at its finest. There is no turning a blind eye to the hell that is cobalt mining. Kara will not allow that, and neither should anyone else..
