Made in China

About 20 years ago China had the insight to recognize that materials needed for EV's would see a large increase in demand so they looked around the world and discovered that one of these materials, cobalt, could be found in Central Africa. They went to Africa and with the permission of the local government began to mine cobalt. These mines contain 70% of the worlds cobalt. Now China, the country that uses the slave labor of the Uyghurs, had no problem using child labor to mine this cobalt. They then ship the cobalt ore to China where they process the ore adding additional contaminants such as hydrochloric, sulfuric and nitric acid to the environment. So far the US press has been willing to overlook these problems under the assumption that China will export the cobalt to the US to make EV's here but some see a different outcome. They see China restricting the cobalt for their own use and exporting EV's. Once again Elon Musk was alert and makes more than half of his Tesla's in China. As the world moves toward wind and solar it should be noted that most of the wind turbines, solar panels and EV's are made in China and all the while it uses coal generated power to make this products. Are we to believe that the US leadership is unaware of all this. Once again the evidence shows the new green deal to be about social change not climate change.