The horrors behind the mining industry that powers your life
"Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Siddharth Kara; St. Martin’s (288 pages, $30)
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You, the smartphone addict. The modern nomad, lugging your fancy laptop. The electric car driver, smug in your certainty that you're making the world a better place. Look over here, under this rock; look at what you'd rather not see.
That's what Siddharth Kara invites you to do in his damning new book, : How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives." Maybe you already know our booming battery-based economy depends on cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. You've heard there. But I'd guess that, like me — smartphone addict, laptop
