Færsluflokkur: Umhverfismál

Kjósendur eru hættir að kjósa út á nafnið eitt!!!!!

Sú var tíðin að menn voru mjög fastheldnir á þá pólitísku flokka sem þeir fylgdu.  Menn voru fljótir að fyrirgefa glappaskotum forustumönnum stjórnmálaflokkanna, það var eins og nafnið á flokkunum eitt og sér dygði til að ná til þeirra sem voru dyggir fylgjendur þeirra.  Svo fór það að gerast að fólk fór að missa trú á vissum stjórnmálamönnum og flokkar þeirra guldu þess.  Nú þurfa menn að vera gallharðir vinstrimenn til þess að kvika hvergi sama hvaða vitleysa kemur frá forystu flokka þeirra.

Forystusveit Sjálfstæðisflokksins virðist haldin þeirri blindu að halda að gamlir og rótgrónir sjálfstæðismenn kjósi ávalt flokkinn út á nafnið eitt.  Staðreyndin er hinsvegar sú að almennir sjálfstæðismenn, grasrót flokksins, er farin að sjá í gegnum forustuna og líkar ekki það sem þeir sjá.  Tiltrú fólks, Sjálfstæðismanna, á forustu flokksins er horfin, fólkið sem kosið hefur flokkinn kýs með fótunum, það er á hraðri ferð út úr flokknum.  Núverandi forustusveit er búin að rústa Sjálfstæðisflokknum, flokknum sem var stoð og stytta íslensks samfélags og virðast þingmenn flokksins sem fóru fram sem dyggir flokksmenn vera undir hæl forustunnar.

Eru til þeir þingmenn sem þora að hafa aðra skoðun en forustan, þingmenn sem hlusta á kjósendur sína og bera sama ótta í brjósti og almenningur sem hefur þorað að hafa aðra skoðun en sá pólitíski rétttrúnaður sem boðaður er af sitjandi ríkisstjórn. 

Ekki er við því að búast að Vinstri grænir séu svo grænir, í þeim skilningi að vilja vernda náttúru og auðæfi landsins, þar sem forusta þess flokks segir flokksmönnum hvernig þeir eigi að hugsa, að því leiti eru þeir algerlega grænir, vantar sjálfstæða hugsun og sjá að VG er komið langt frá þeirri stefnu sem þeir boða, svona rétt fyrir kosningar. 

Framsóknarflokkurinn er leiðitamur, opinn í báða enda og siglir eftir vindum hverju sinni ef þeir telja sig græða á því.

Í grasrót Sjálfstæðisflokksins er nú orðið, sem betur fer, til fólk sem þorir að hafa aðra skoðun en forustan og lætur í sér heyra.  En hefur forusta flokksins þá auðmýkt til að bera að hlusta og játa að þeim hafi orðið á og séu viljugir til að snúa af þeirri braut sem þeir hafa verið á.  Geri þeir það ekki er Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn búinn að vera sem forustuafl í íslenskum stjórnmálum.

Kjósendur eru hættir að kjósa út á nafnið eitt það þarf meira til.!!!!!!!


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Trump og tíst hans um Baltimore

Viðbrögð við tísti Trumps um Baltimore og óhreinindin þar eru enn að koma í ljós og það á annan hátt en andstæðingar hans væntu.

Ég vona að þetta myndband sé í lagi, ef ekki má fara á þessa vefslóð: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVRtRdaLFyQ

 


Þrældómurinn sem börn þurfa að ganga í gegnum svo fólk geti keyrt um á rafmagnsbílum. Nokkuð sem fjölmiðlar almennt fjalla ekki um.

Í "Lýðræðisríkinu" Kongó finnst kóbalt og eru sérstakar námur þar sem grafið er eftir þessu efni. Kóbalt er notað er í framleiðslu rafmagnsgeyma. Í þessum námum vinna um 40.000 börn alveg niður í 4ára aldur. Börnin eru látin vinna við mjög erfiðar aðstæður, erfiðisvinnu og hættulega. Fjöldi barna deyja á ári hverju. Sameinuðu þjóðirnar áætla að um 80 börn deyi í námunum árlega, en þau eru mun fleiri því mörg þeirra grafast undir jarðveginum sem hrynur yfir þau þar sem þau eru að vinna við mjög svo hættulegar aðstæður.

En hvað er með þetta kóbalt, af hverju er það svona mikilvægt? Jú, efnið hentar svo vel í framleiðslu á rafgeymum og nú þarf að bæta verulega í framleiðslu þeirra þar sem stefnt er að bílar og önnur farartæki verði einvörðungu knúin áfram af rafmagni og þar koma rafgeymar til sögunnar.

Vesturlandabúar hrósa happi yfir nýjum bílum sem knúnir eru áfram með rafmagni. Það sem notendur þessara bíla gera sér ekki grein fyrir er að smá krakkar eru notaðir í þrælavinnu til að hægt sé að framleiða rafgeymana sem knýja bílana þeirra.

Unglingar sem safnast saman á Austurvelli og krefjast þess að stjórnvöld geri eitthvað í loftslagsmálum, vilja að hætt verði að nota olíu og bensín til að knýja farartæki áfram gera sér ekki grein fyrir því að fjöldi barna hafa verið hnept í þrælahald og mörg þeirra deyja til að hægt sé að breyta farartækjum á þann veg að þau notast við rafgeyma sem börnin eru látin sjá fyrir efni í.

Stóru bankarnir eins og Goldman Sachs, ríki eins og Bretland, fyrirtæki eins og General Motors, Renault-Nissan, Tesla, BMW og Fiat-Chrysler og fleiri aðilar vita nákvæmlega hvað er að gerast en loka augunum fyrir þessum hryllingi allt í nafni gróða og meiri peninga.

Hér fyrir neðan er grein á ensku sem tekin er úr Mail Online, sem lýsir hryllingnum sem börnin þurfa að takast á við. Myndum við vilja að börnin okkar væru í þessum sporum? þau fá ekki einu sinni nú orðið að vinna í fiski eða send í sveit eins og tíðkaðist hér áður fyrr.

 

Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade

  • Sky News investigated the Katanga mines and found Dorsen, 8, and Monica, 4
  • The pair were working in the vast mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • They are two of the 40,000 children working daily in the mines, checking rocks for cobalt

By Barbara Jones for The Mail on Sunday

Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt – the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

And it’s feared that thousands more children could be about to be dragged into this hellish daily existence – after the historic pledge made by Britain to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and switch to electric vehicles.

Eight-year-old Dorsen is pictured cowering beneath the raised hand of an overseer who warns him not to spill a rock

Eight-year-old Dorsen is pictured cowering beneath the raised hand of an overseer who warns him not to spill a rock

It heralds a future of clean energy, free from pollution but – though there can be no doubting the good intentions behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove’s announcement last month – such ideals mean nothing for the children condemned to a life of hellish misery in the race to achieve his target.

Dorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death.

Almost every big motor manufacturer striving to produce millions of electric vehicles buys its cobalt from the impoverished central African state. It is the world’s biggest producer, with 60 per cent of the planet’s reserves.

The cobalt is mined by unregulated labour and transported to Asia where battery manufacturers use it to make their products lighter, longer-lasting and rechargeable.

The planned switch to clean energy vehicles has led to an extraordinary surge in demand. While a smartphone battery uses no more than 10 grams of refined cobalt, an electric car needs 15kg (33lb).

He then staggers beneath the weight of a heavy sack that he must carry to unload 60ft away in pouring rain

He then staggers beneath the weight of a heavy sack that he must carry to unload 60ft away in pouring rain

Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, calls cobalt ‘the new gasoline’ but there are no signs of new wealth in the DRC, where the children haul the rocks brought up from tunnels dug by hand.

Adult miners dig up to 600ft below the surface using basic tools, without protective clothing or modern machinery. Sometimes the children are sent down into the narrow makeshift chambers where there is constant danger of collapse.

Cobalt is such a health hazard that it has a respiratory disease named after it – cobalt lung, a form of pneumonia which causes coughing and leads to permanent incapacity and even death.

Even simply eating vegetables grown in local soil can cause vomiting and diarrhoea, thyroid damage and fatal lung diseases, while birds and fish cannot survive in the area.

No one knows quite how many children have died mining cobalt in the Katanga region in the south-east of the country. The UN estimates 80 a year, but many more deaths go unregistered, with the bodies buried in the rubble of collapsed tunnels. Others survive but with chronic diseases which destroy their young lives. Girls as young as ten in the mines are subjected to sexual attacks and many become pregnant.

Dorsen and 11-year-old Richard are pictured. With his mother dead, Dorsen lives with his father in the bush and the two have to work daily in the cobalt mine to earn money for food.

Dorsen and 11-year-old Richard are pictured. With his mother dead, Dorsen lives with his father in the bush and the two have to work daily in the cobalt mine to earn money for food.

When Sky News investigated the Katanga mines it found Dorsen, working near a little girl called Monica, who was four, on a day of relentless rainfall.

Dorsen was hauling heavy sacks of rocks from the mine surface to a growing stack 60ft away. A full sack was lifted on to Dorsen’s head and he staggered across to the stack. A brutish overseer stood over him, shouting and raising his hand to threaten a beating if he spilt any.

With his mother dead, Dorsen lives with his father in the bush and the two have to work daily in the cobalt mine to earn money for food.

Dorsen’s friend Richard, 11, said that at the end of a working day ‘everything hurts’.

In a country devastated by civil wars in which millions have died, there is no other way for families to survive. Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) is donating £10.5million between June 2007 and June 2018 towards strengthening revenue transparency and encouraging responsible activity in large and small scale artisanal mining, ‘to benefit the poor of DRC’.

There is little to show for these efforts so far. There is a DRC law forbidding the enslavement of under-age children, but nobody enforces it.

The UN’s International Labour Organisation has described cobalt mining in DRC as ‘one of the worst forms of child labour’ due to the health risks.

Soil samples taken from the mining area by doctors at the University of Lubumbashi, the nearest city, show the region to be among the ten most polluted in the world. Residents near mines in southern DRC had urinary concentrates of cobalt 43 higher than normal. Lead levels were five times higher, cadmium and uranium four times higher.

The worldwide rush to bring millions of electric vehicles on to our roads has handed a big advantage to those giant car-makers which saw this bonanza coming and invested in developing battery-powered vehicles, among them General Motors, Renault-Nissan, Tesla, BMW and Fiat-Chrysler.

Chinese middle-men working for the Congo Dongfang Mining Company have the stranglehold in DRC, buying the raw cobalt brought to them in sacks carried on bicycles and dilapidated old cars daily from the Katanga mines. They sit in shacks on a dusty road near the Zambian border, offering measly sums scrawled on blackboards outside – £40 for a ton of cobalt-rich rocks – that will be sent by cargo ship to minerals giant Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt in China and sold on to a complex supply chain feeding giant multinationals.

Challenged by the Washington Post about the appalling conditions in the mines, Huayou Cobalt said ‘it would be irresponsible’ to stop using child labour, claiming: ‘It could aggravate poverty in the cobalt mining regions and worsen the livelihood of local miners.’

Human rights charity Amnesty International also investigated cobalt mining in the DRC and says that none of the 16 electric vehicle manufacturers they identified have conducted due diligence to the standard defined by the Responsible Cobalt Initiative.

Monica, just four-years-old, works in the mine alongside Dorsen and Richard

Monica, just four-years-old, works in the mine alongside Dorsen and Richard

Encouragingly, Apple, which uses the mineral in its devices, has committed itself to treat cobalt like conflict minerals – those which have in the past funded child soldiers in the country’s civil war – and the company claims it is going to require all refiners to have supply chain audits and risk assessments. But Amnesty International is not satisfied. ‘This promise is not worth the paper it is written on when the companies are not investigating their suppliers,’ said Amnesty’s Mark Dummett. ‘Big brands have the power to change this.’

After DRC, Australia is the next biggest source of cobalt, with reserves of 1million tons, followed by Cuba, China, Russia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Car maker Tesla – the market leader in electric vehicles – plans to produce 500,000 cars per year starting in 2018, and will need 7,800 tons of cobalt to achieve this. Sales are expected to hit 4.4 million by 2021. It means the price of cobalt will soar as the world gears itself up for the electric car revolution, and there is evidence some corporations are cancelling their contracts with regulated mines using industrial technology, and turning increasingly to the cheaper mines using human labour.

After the terrible plight of Dorsen and Richard was broadcast in a report on Sky News, an emotive response from viewers funded a rescue by children’s charity Kimbilio. They are now living in a church-supported children’s home, sleeping on mattresses for the first time in their lives and going to school.

But there is no such happy ending for the tens of thousands of children left in the hell on earth that is the cobalt mines of the Congo.

Child miners aged four at Congo cobalt mine


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Hvað segja vísindamenn um 5G-tæknina???

Nú er í bígerð að setja upp 5G-farsímakerfi. 5G er víst mun öflugra en 4G og munar þar verulega um hraða.

Erlendis eru ýmsir aðilar sem vara við þessari nýju tækni, ekki vegna þess hversu hratt hægt verði að sækja efni, skoða og deila með öðrum heldur geislavirknin sem mun stafa af sendunum sem dreifa skilaboðunum.

5G-tæknin byggir á stuttbylgjum sem dreifast mjög þétt en ná stutt, þar af leiðandi þarf að fjölga sendum margfalt miðað við það sem nú er til að koma í veg fyrir dauða staði. Sendarnir eru sífellt að senda og ná í upplýsingar og eru því stöðulega virkar og bylgjur þeirra í loftinu alltaf í fullri virkni.

Bylgjurnar og þéttleiki þeirra mun hafa áhrif á líkama okkar þar sem greið leið verður fyrir bylgjurnar inn og í innyfli okkar. Óttast menn að það muni leiða til verulegrar aukningar á krabbameini hjá fólki. Menn vilja meina að áhrif bylgnanna séu ekki nægilega vel rannsakaðar.

Hér fyrir neðan er vefslóð á Radiation Health Risks.com

https://www.radiationhealthrisks.com/5g-cell-towers-dangerous/

 

og Environmenta Health Trust

https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/5g-networks-iot-scientific-overview-human-health-risks/

 

Hafa íslensk stjórnvöld gengið úr skugga um að þessi tækni sé örugg eða eru þau enn einu sinni að hlaupa eftir ákvörðunum annarra þjóða, ákvörðunum sem geta haft alvarlegar afleiðingar fyrir fólkið í landinu??? Skiptum við kannski stjórnvöldum ekki neinu máli??????


mbl.is Baráttan um 5G-farsímakerfið harðnar
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Hryllingurinn sem börn þurfa að upplifa svo við, ég og þú getum keyrt um á rafmagnsbílum.

Í "Lýðræðisríkinu" Kongó finnst kóbalt og eru sérstakar námur þar sem grafið er eftir þessu efni. Kóbalt er notað er í framleiðslu rafmagnsgeyma. Í þessum námum vinna um 40.000 börn alveg niður í 4ára aldur. Börnin eru látin vinna við mjög erfiðar aðstæður, erfiðisvinnu og hættulega. Fjöldi barna deyja á ári hverju. Sameinuðu þjóðirnar áætla að um 80 börn deyi í námunum árlega, en þau eru mun fleiri því mörg þeirra grafast undir jarðveginum sem hrynur yfir þau þar sem þau eru að vinna við mjög svo hættulegar aðstæður.

En hvað er með þetta kóbalt, af hverju er það svona mikilvægt? Jú, efnið hentar svo vel í framleiðslu á rafgeymum og nú þarf að bæta verulega í framleiðslu þeirra þar sem stefnt er að bílar og önnur farartæki verði einvörðungu knúin áfram af rafmagni og þar koma rafgeymar til sögunnar.

Vesturlandabúar hrósa happi yfir nýjum bílum sem knúnir eru áfram með rafmagni. Það sem notendur þessara bíla gera sér ekki grein fyrir er að smá krakkar eru notaðir í þrælavinnu til að hægt sé að framleiða rafgeymana sem knýja bílana þeirra.

Unglingar sem safnast saman á Austurvelli og krefjast þess að stjórnvöld geri eitthvað í loftslagsmálum, vilja að hætt verði að nota olíu og bensín til að knýja farartæki áfram gera sér ekki grein fyrir því að fjöldi barna hafa verið hnept í þrælahald og mörg þeirra deyja til að hægt sé að breyta farartækjum á þann veg að þau notast við rafgeyma sem börnin eru látin sjá fyrir efni í.

Stóru bankarnir eins og Goldman Sachs, ríki eins og Bretland, fyrirtæki eins og General Motors, Renault-Nissan, Tesla, BMW og Fiat-Chrysler og fleiri aðilar vita nákvæmlega hvað er að gerast en loka augunum fyrir þessum hryllingi allt í nafni gróða og meiri peninga.

Hér fyrir neðan er grein á ensku sem tekin er úr Mail Online, sem lýsir hryllingnum sem börnin þurfa að takast á við. Myndum við vilja að börnin okkar væru í þessum sporum? þau fá ekki einu sinni nú orðið að vinna í fiski eða send í sveit eins og tíðkaðist hér áður fyrr.

 

Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade

  • Sky News investigated the Katanga mines and found Dorsen, 8, and Monica, 4
  • The pair were working in the vast mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • They are two of the 40,000 children working daily in the mines, checking rocks for cobalt

By Barbara Jones for The Mail on Sunday

Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt – the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

And it’s feared that thousands more children could be about to be dragged into this hellish daily existence – after the historic pledge made by Britain to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and switch to electric vehicles.

Eight-year-old Dorsen is pictured cowering beneath the raised hand of an overseer who warns him not to spill a rock

Eight-year-old Dorsen is pictured cowering beneath the raised hand of an overseer who warns him not to spill a rock

It heralds a future of clean energy, free from pollution but – though there can be no doubting the good intentions behind Environment Secretary Michael Gove’s announcement last month – such ideals mean nothing for the children condemned to a life of hellish misery in the race to achieve his target.

Dorsen, just eight, is one of 40,000 children working daily in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The terrible price they will pay for our clean air is ruined health and a likely early death.

Almost every big motor manufacturer striving to produce millions of electric vehicles buys its cobalt from the impoverished central African state. It is the world’s biggest producer, with 60 per cent of the planet’s reserves.

The cobalt is mined by unregulated labour and transported to Asia where battery manufacturers use it to make their products lighter, longer-lasting and rechargeable.

The planned switch to clean energy vehicles has led to an extraordinary surge in demand. While a smartphone battery uses no more than 10 grams of refined cobalt, an electric car needs 15kg (33lb).

He then staggers beneath the weight of a heavy sack that he must carry to unload 60ft away in pouring rain

He then staggers beneath the weight of a heavy sack that he must carry to unload 60ft away in pouring rain

Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, calls cobalt ‘the new gasoline’ but there are no signs of new wealth in the DRC, where the children haul the rocks brought up from tunnels dug by hand.

Adult miners dig up to 600ft below the surface using basic tools, without protective clothing or modern machinery. Sometimes the children are sent down into the narrow makeshift chambers where there is constant danger of collapse.

Cobalt is such a health hazard that it has a respiratory disease named after it – cobalt lung, a form of pneumonia which causes coughing and leads to permanent incapacity and even death.

Even simply eating vegetables grown in local soil can cause vomiting and diarrhoea, thyroid damage and fatal lung diseases, while birds and fish cannot survive in the area.

No one knows quite how many children have died mining cobalt in the Katanga region in the south-east of the country. The UN estimates 80 a year, but many more deaths go unregistered, with the bodies buried in the rubble of collapsed tunnels. Others survive but with chronic diseases which destroy their young lives. Girls as young as ten in the mines are subjected to sexual attacks and many become pregnant.

Dorsen and 11-year-old Richard are pictured. With his mother dead, Dorsen lives with his father in the bush and the two have to work daily in the cobalt mine to earn money for food.

Dorsen and 11-year-old Richard are pictured. With his mother dead, Dorsen lives with his father in the bush and the two have to work daily in the cobalt mine to earn money for food.

When Sky News investigated the Katanga mines it found Dorsen, working near a little girl called Monica, who was four, on a day of relentless rainfall.

Dorsen was hauling heavy sacks of rocks from the mine surface to a growing stack 60ft away. A full sack was lifted on to Dorsen’s head and he staggered across to the stack. A brutish overseer stood over him, shouting and raising his hand to threaten a beating if he spilt any.

With his mother dead, Dorsen lives with his father in the bush and the two have to work daily in the cobalt mine to earn money for food.

Dorsen’s friend Richard, 11, said that at the end of a working day ‘everything hurts’.

In a country devastated by civil wars in which millions have died, there is no other way for families to survive. Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) is donating £10.5million between June 2007 and June 2018 towards strengthening revenue transparency and encouraging responsible activity in large and small scale artisanal mining, ‘to benefit the poor of DRC’.

There is little to show for these efforts so far. There is a DRC law forbidding the enslavement of under-age children, but nobody enforces it.

The UN’s International Labour Organisation has described cobalt mining in DRC as ‘one of the worst forms of child labour’ due to the health risks.

Soil samples taken from the mining area by doctors at the University of Lubumbashi, the nearest city, show the region to be among the ten most polluted in the world. Residents near mines in southern DRC had urinary concentrates of cobalt 43 higher than normal. Lead levels were five times higher, cadmium and uranium four times higher.

The worldwide rush to bring millions of electric vehicles on to our roads has handed a big advantage to those giant car-makers which saw this bonanza coming and invested in developing battery-powered vehicles, among them General Motors, Renault-Nissan, Tesla, BMW and Fiat-Chrysler.

Chinese middle-men working for the Congo Dongfang Mining Company have the stranglehold in DRC, buying the raw cobalt brought to them in sacks carried on bicycles and dilapidated old cars daily from the Katanga mines. They sit in shacks on a dusty road near the Zambian border, offering measly sums scrawled on blackboards outside – £40 for a ton of cobalt-rich rocks – that will be sent by cargo ship to minerals giant Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt in China and sold on to a complex supply chain feeding giant multinationals.

Challenged by the Washington Post about the appalling conditions in the mines, Huayou Cobalt said ‘it would be irresponsible’ to stop using child labour, claiming: ‘It could aggravate poverty in the cobalt mining regions and worsen the livelihood of local miners.’

Human rights charity Amnesty International also investigated cobalt mining in the DRC and says that none of the 16 electric vehicle manufacturers they identified have conducted due diligence to the standard defined by the Responsible Cobalt Initiative.

Monica, just four-years-old, works in the mine alongside Dorsen and Richard

Monica, just four-years-old, works in the mine alongside Dorsen and Richard

Encouragingly, Apple, which uses the mineral in its devices, has committed itself to treat cobalt like conflict minerals – those which have in the past funded child soldiers in the country’s civil war – and the company claims it is going to require all refiners to have supply chain audits and risk assessments. But Amnesty International is not satisfied. ‘This promise is not worth the paper it is written on when the companies are not investigating their suppliers,’ said Amnesty’s Mark Dummett. ‘Big brands have the power to change this.’

After DRC, Australia is the next biggest source of cobalt, with reserves of 1million tons, followed by Cuba, China, Russia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Car maker Tesla – the market leader in electric vehicles – plans to produce 500,000 cars per year starting in 2018, and will need 7,800 tons of cobalt to achieve this. Sales are expected to hit 4.4 million by 2021. It means the price of cobalt will soar as the world gears itself up for the electric car revolution, and there is evidence some corporations are cancelling their contracts with regulated mines using industrial technology, and turning increasingly to the cheaper mines using human labour.

After the terrible plight of Dorsen and Richard was broadcast in a report on Sky News, an emotive response from viewers funded a rescue by children’s charity Kimbilio. They are now living in a church-supported children’s home, sleeping on mattresses for the first time in their lives and going to school.

But there is no such happy ending for the tens of thousands of children left in the hell on earth that is the cobalt mines of the Congo.

Child miners aged four at Congo cobalt mine

 


Sameinuðu þjóðirnar standi saman að hreinsun á heimshöfunum.

Hvernig væri nú að þessir háu herrar og frúr hvettu þjóðir heims ekki eingöngu að draga úr plastnotkun heldur einnig og ekki hvað síst nú þegar að taka höndum saman og hreinsa heimshöfin af þessum plastflákum sem berast með straumum og vindum vítt og breytt um hafflötinn.

Með sameiginlegu átaki gætu Sameinuðu þjóðirnar komið sér saman um að taka til á hafinu, þá væri hægt að nefna Sameinuðu þjóðirnar með réttu, annars er þetta nafn Sameinuðu þjóðirnar rangnefni, því þetta er mjög svo sundurleitur hópur þjóða.

Sameinuðu þjóðirnar standi saman að hreinsun á heimshöfunum.


mbl.is Breyta þarf hagkerfum heimsins
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Professor Ivar Giaever, Nóbelverðlaunahafi 1973 í eðlisfræði. Sjá myndband

Á myndbandinu fjallar Ívar um hnattræna hlýnun.


Skildu stjórnmálamenn og fulltrúar á loftslagsráðstefnunni hafa komist heim vegna veðurs ?

Þeir hafa fengið það sem þeir vildu fulltrúar á loftslagsráðstefnunni í Köben.  Getur verið að það hafi andað svo köldu milli fulltrúa ríkra og fátækra ríkja að það hafi haft áhrif á veðurfarið ? það skildi þó ekki vera Wink

Bretar og nokkrar aðrar þjóðir hafa lofað að styrkja fátækar þjóðir um milljarða á milljarða ofan.  Við vitum að Bretar hafa ekki efni á slíkur, en þeim er vorkunn, þeir geta alltaf sent reikninginn til okkar Íslendinga, við virðumst vera borgunarmenn fyrir svo marga okkur óviðkomandi.  Frown  Allavega finnst þeim Jóhönnu og Steingrími það alveg sjálfsagt  Angry

 

 


mbl.is 19 stiga frost í Danmörku
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